Keep trying. I too tried several times but refused to give up, and eventually made it. Regards, tom. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joe Platt Sent: 21 June 2012 12:18 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ENG-LIV] Petition re cost of BMD certificates (England & Wales) Tried in vain to sign it...........but it won't accept ANY security word even though I typed it in correctly several times What next? Joe Platt Liverpool -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andy Sent: 21 June 2012 11:47 To: Pat Stanistreet; [email protected] Subject: Re: [ENG-LIV] Petition re cost of BMD certificates (England & Wales) >-----Original Message----- >From: Pat Stanistreet >Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 7:25 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [ENG-LIV] Petition re cost of BMD certificates (England & >Wales) >If you haven't come across this already you may be interested in the >following which is on the excellent British Genes blog, concerning a >petition to reduce the cost of BMD certificates from the GRO England >and Wales. >“The >idea is to have uncertified copies of certificates for family history >research, which have no legal authority, similar to what they do in the >Republic of Ireland. These could be obtained at a much lower fee, the >price of £2 per certificate is suggested.” >The link is < http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/1792 >Should also be worth posting on other message boards you subscribe to. >Pat The difference in printing on plain paper and a certificate is only a few pence, just the difference in the cost of the paper as the procedure would be the same. It would be great if the GRO implemented a system similar to Scotland but in order to do that I few things need to be done. Legislation would need to be changed to allow it. Whilst this would be straightforward it is a matter of priority as to when it would happen. Registers would need to be scanned, my understanding is that the Births up to 1934 & Deaths up to 1957 have been done by the failed D.O.V.E. project, at a cost of 8.7 million pounds, but that the marriages haven't been scanned yet. There would need to be a searchable online index created (some 300 million records) with links to the digitised registers. I think that it would cost several million pounds to implement the system and there is also the job losses that the government would probably want to consider. These could amount to several dozen or more. Andy ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Admin Message - List guidelines: http://freespace.virgin.net/genealogical.collections/AdminMessage.htm The list admin can be contacted at [email protected] ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Admin Message - List guidelines: http://freespace.virgin.net/genealogical.collections/AdminMessage.htm The list admin can be contacted at [email protected] ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message