Completely wrong parliament Guy. MPs sit in the UK parliament in England whereas the rules governing Scotland's People are decided by MSPs in the Scottish Parliament. The petition is to open up English and Welsh records. Even if passed and implemented it would have no impact on the Scottish records. Basically the petition for England and Wales wants to achieve the same accessibility to records in the rest of the UK that we already enjoy in Scotland. So by all means sign the petition but we need a completely different petition to introduce a subscription method of payment for Scotland's people. As I said before several members of this very email list are local Aberdeen/Aberdeenshire Councillors people who helped get the local MSPs elected. They could be a route to the ear of the MSPs to instigate change. As far as I am aware it doesn't require legislation only for the minister in charge to propose changing the rules and for those changes to be approved. Regards Alexander Bisset Try my FREE Family Tree Analyzer program you can download from http://FTAnalyzer.codeplex.com to investigate the data hidden in your research. > On 1 Apr 2014, at 20:51, "Guy Etchells" <guy.etchells@virgin.net> wrote > Les, there is a campaign and a petition online to open historic registers > Please sign the petition at > http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/62779 > > Details of the Campaign to Open Historic Registers > http://anguline.co.uk/ohrn.html > > There has been a long history of support for such changes Lord Teviot (a > supporter of the campaign) had a bill passed th the House of Lords in > 1983 but unfortunately due to the General Election it was not presented > to the House of Commons. In 1999 Keith Darvill had a similar Bill read > twice. > In 2004 following the 2002 White Paper, the government decided to > introduce similar legislation but this was thwarted by the use of the > Regulatory Reform system rather than a debate in the Commons to change > the legislation. > > We can achieve change now with support, please sign the petition and if > you have an MP who sits in the House of Commons, please write or email > him/her ask him/her to support the campaign. > Cheers > Guy > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ABERDEEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message