Hello Listers It has been decided to set up an e-petition website to protest our case about the lack of availablity of the 1901 census. Offers to set this up have been made and the best time-scale so far has been within 24 hours of 22.00 hrs British Time 26th March. I'd hope we could get at least 20,000 signatures within a couple of days and send the petition by say Tuesday 2nd April. We'd have to 'advertise' the petition on various mailing lists to do that. I have also visited the Tracy Housel e-petition as an example of how to set-up an e-petition website (poor man only got 1137 signatures - but at least that got an appeal from the British Government) on www.petitiononline.com/tracyH/petition It has links to View Current Signatures and to Sign Petition. Since submission, the current signatures link has been disabled because of the SirCam virus - which makes sense - but perhaps a warning about virus' and advice as to how to download virus protection would come in handy. I'd suggest the following wording - all items in brackets are comments only and not to be included ......... 1901 CENSUS View current signatures (link).................... - Sign the Petition (link) TO : THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT Promises have been made by the British Government, via media sources and the Public Record Offices that the 1901 census would be available for public viewing online from 1st January 2002. It has been assumed that these promises have been made in conjuction with the proposed Freedom of Information Act (does anyone know if this is law yet? - or just proposed?). An attempt to fulfil these (this?) promise(s) has categorically failed due to incompetently researched high levels of demand. Nevertheless, the British and International Community have in the past, highly respected the promises of the British Government and would expect their promises to be fulfilled. More recent proposals have suggested access within limited demands, which we the undersigned do not believe to be full and proper implementation of the original promise. We the undersigned urge the British Government to comply in full with it's promise to allow access to the 1901 census, notwithstanding demand, as a matter of urgency. Yours sincerely The Undersigned Click here to Sign Petition (link) View current signatures (link) If you have any sensible suggestions to add please let me know asap - Regards Linda Jones South-East UK Note - feel free to copy this email to other lists

Back off and let them sort it out and not waste their time with this sort of nonsense. Gil Upton -----Original Message----- From: Linda Jones [mailto:linda@activeservice.co.uk] Sent: 27 March 2002 02:21 To: BIRKENHEAD-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [BKHD] 1901 E-Petition Hello Listers It has been decided to set up an e-petition website to protest our case about the lack of availablity of the 1901 census. Offers to set this up have been made and the best time-scale so far has been within 24 hours of 22.00 hrs British Time 26th March. I'd hope we could get at least 20,000 signatures within a couple of days and send the petition by say Tuesday 2nd April. We'd have to 'advertise' the petition on various mailing lists to do that. I have also visited the Tracy Housel e-petition as an example of how to set-up an e-petition website (poor man only got 1137 signatures - but at least that got an appeal from the British Government) on www.petitiononline.com/tracyH/petition It has links to View Current Signatures and to Sign Petition. Since submission, the current signatures link has been disabled because of the SirCam virus - which makes sense - but perhaps a warning about virus' and advice as to how to download virus protection would come in handy. I'd suggest the following wording - all items in brackets are comments only and not to be included ......... 1901 CENSUS View current signatures (link).................... - Sign the Petition (link) TO : THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT Promises have been made by the British Government, via media sources and the Public Record Offices that the 1901 census would be available for public viewing online from 1st January 2002. It has been assumed that these promises have been made in conjuction with the proposed Freedom of Information Act (does anyone know if this is law yet? - or just proposed?). An attempt to fulfil these (this?) promise(s) has categorically failed due to incompetently researched high levels of demand. Nevertheless, the British and International Community have in the past, highly respected the promises of the British Government and would expect their promises to be fulfilled. More recent proposals have suggested access within limited demands, which we the undersigned do not believe to be full and proper implementation of the original promise. We the undersigned urge the British Government to comply in full with it's promise to allow access to the 1901 census, notwithstanding demand, as a matter of urgency. Yours sincerely The Undersigned Click here to Sign Petition (link) View current signatures (link) If you have any sensible suggestions to add please let me know asap - Regards Linda Jones South-East UK Note - feel free to copy this email to other lists ==== BIRKENHEAD Mailing List ==== To contact the administrator of this mailing list, send mail to BIRKENHEAD-admin@rootsweb.com ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourc eid=1237