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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: [Lon] BMD Certs online, ever?
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 00:16:35 +0100
In-Reply-To: <021801c4b4fc$28d480b0$19849ed9@janet>



>"They were like the Yellow Pages but with a lot more information,
>including census details,

not, however, names and relationships, birthplaces etc, but numbers of
the population in a particular parish/village/ton in the last census.
>

>Grandfather's job - It has so far put 330,000 documents from some 643
>directories online. Mr Clarke, a senior technologist at the digital
>imaging firm Archive Quest, believes the website will serve a variety
>of needs. "People tracing their family history would be able find out
>that their great grandfather was a plumber for instance,
again, only if he was a mastert plumber with his own business
I presume the journalist reporting is responsible for these misleading
claims, not the man who actually produces the site

--
Eve McLaughlin

Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

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