I agree Anne its all Quackers. Sadly common sense went years ago in the UK. Donald D. Orlando Florida   ________________________________ From: Anne Chambers <anne.chambers@bigpond.com> To: eng-surrey@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, 6 November, 2009 9:15:58 Subject: Re: [SRY] GRO Digitisation Project Interesting  - what with all the bird names, it sounds like it's going to be a bit of a dead duck !  What's the point in having yet another online index (FreeBMD & Ancestry are there already)  if the actual registers aren't going to be available online ? Anne South Australia Ann Sargeant wrote: >  This news will doubtless be of interest to Surrey researchers. > >  The General Register Office has just announced that the digitisation of > GRO's >  births, marriages and deaths records is moving forward and a new project, >  called the Digitisation and Indexing (D&I) Project, has been initiated. > >  The new project covers the digitisation of the records themselves together >  with indexing and upgrading the online certificate ordering process. The >  digitisation page on the IPS corporate website has been updated and further >  details including a Q&  A can be accessed via >  http://www.ips.gov.uk/cps/rde/xchg/ips_live/hs.xsl/1090.htm > >  Ann > Surrey Admin > *************************************** Send your List messages using **PLAIN TEXT** and always **TRIM AWAY** superfluous old messages in replies. List Admin can be contacted at:  Eng-Surrey-admin@rootsweb.com.   ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-SURREY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

> > > Sadly common sense went years ago in the UK. > > I might be persuaded to agree with this comment, but only when all overseas users of UK facilities come and live in this county and pay taxes for the privilege. JK

Cool it: didn'y you notice the real btinternet address, and the spoof signature (Donald Duck) and spoof address? The message was pretty obviously from a pukka UK taxpayer... Geoff Geoffrey Chew g.chew@rhul.ac.uk ________________________________ From: eng-surrey-bounces@rootsweb.com on behalf of J K gen Sent: Fri 6.11.09 14:12 To: eng-surrey@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SRY] GRO Digitisation Project > Sadly common sense went years ago in the UK. I might be persuaded to agree with this comment, but only when all overseas users of UK facilities come and live in this county and pay taxes for the privilege. JK