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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: [Lon] Freedom of Information Act
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 12:06:55 +0000
In-Reply-To: <004b01c50fab$e6e579b0$2eb40152@youraavqvqv7jc>


In message <004b01c50fab$e6e579b0$>, Janice
Aitkens <> writes
>But as I understand it there was not a 100 year rule when it was taken that
>figure came in to being

as John said, what was promised was total confidentiality, so it might
NEVER have been released and the 100 years is a concession. I understand
that some overseas censuses have been destroyed when the statisticians
had finished with them.

--
Eve McLaughlin

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

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