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From: Barney Tyrwhitt-Drake <>
Subject: Re: [SoG] Re: Access to 1901 Census
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 08:40:07 +0000
In-Reply-To: <2d10c5474a.tim@southfrm.demon.co.uk>


In message <>, Tim Powys-Lybbe
<> writes
>In message <1kv++LAgc+>
> Barney Tyrwhitt-Drake <> wrote:
>
>> In message <000201c08d6c$5aec64c0$>, Jakeprescott
>> <> writes
>> >I was speaking only last week with the Director of Hyde Park family history
>> >centre of the Church of LDS and he stated that it was most unlikely that his
>> >church would be assisting with another census for at least another 20 years
>> >as they have world wide interests and other fish to fry - I believe that
>> >they are trying to put together now an American 1881 census and that the
>> >present strategy is to try to get census details all over the world at
>> >around that same time. It would therefore seem that our FHSs would be on
>> >their own (and at the moment they are preoccupied with a burial index, are
>> >they not?)
>> I can't comment about the LDS curch's other commitments, but the legwork
>> in the UK was done by the FFHS for the 1881, and there is no reason why
>> they could not repeat it I would think. What it needs is an umbrella
>> organisation with the IT experience to manage such a project. One is
>> tempted to think of the SoG, but with the demise of their Computers
>> Committee they have shot themselves in the foot and put themselves out
>> of the frame if you'll let me mix my metaphors.

Yes, this is what was said in the early press releases and publicity put
out by the PRO.I only hope they realise that a significant number of
indexes to the 19th century censuses have already been created by FHSs
so that the wheel is not reinvented.
--
Barney Tyrwhitt-Drake

Drake Software web site: http://www.tdrake.demon.co.uk

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