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From: Barney Tyrwhitt-Drake <>
Subject: Re: [SoG] Changing a government's mind
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 08:58:57 +0000
In-Reply-To: <037d01c16238$64eb08e0$d42c893e@default>


In message <037d01c16238$64eb08e0$>, Peter Park <peter-
> writes
>
>Barney Tyrwhitt-Drake wrote:
>
>> If it is in the Daily Torygraph then it must of course be true! 6 months
>> ago I know for sure that the government was minded to centralise access
>> to all historic BMD certificates at Southport and close county Registry
>> Offices as access points for family historians. I will now be very
>> surprised if this happens, but you will understand if I don't quote my
>> sources on this one.
>
>I not sure that the Government will have to legislate for this. A number of
>inner city superintendent registrars are so strapped for cash that they are
>unable to handle any family history work.
>
As I understand it they don't have to legislate anyway. The Registrar
General publishes his paper (Dec 2001 I am hearing) and it gets done.
--
Barney Tyrwhitt-Drake

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