On Tue, 6 Nov 2001 22:37:35 +0000, you wrote: >Birth details might be an arguable case ... and there are >restrictions on obtaining birth cert's of people less than 50 years >old. Passport fraud springs to mind immediately. > >But marriages are essentially a public announcement by the >participants of their legal status and consent to each other. This is >a public event with witnesses. Why is there a problem? Like I said, it seems that the data becomes a little *too* easy to get at. >Lastly ... >Where can you interrogate the CD versions of the post-1984 registers? FRC, or you can buy the CDs -- Dave Mayall