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From: "Kate Martinson" <>
Subject: [Lon] Genie Pressure Group - was 1901 Census
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 16:13:36 -0000
In-Reply-To: <002601c196a3$3e4aa700$8fce87d9@jontyclark>


Jonathan asked:

>It makes me wonder. Do they actually consult any genealogists when they're
>doing this?

This is what somebody posted to Norfolk-L in response to my complaint that
the PRO were concentrating on getting the 1891 online next:

>>They have an advisory committee with representation from genealogists - do
they take ANY notice ??

<snip>
>>the PRO proposal to follow the 1901 Census with - of all dates - the 1891
Census, thus proposing to waste all the time that volunteers in Norfolk and
elsewhere have spent producing Names Indexes to that Census (678 parish
indexes currently carried on my web-site - and I am currently working to
upload indexes for Great Yarmouth - nearly 35,000 individuals - so probably
something like 8,000 family addresses).

It would be interesting to see the minutes of the advisory committee - if
opinions were expressed by genies that the 1891 might not be the most useful
release (in view of the 1881 and 1901), it would be reasonable to assume
that the prime mover were profits, not public service

Kate Martinson

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