I've just seen this, which I presume will be welcome news, on the SoG website: "The Society of Genealogists is delighted to announce that the Government has accepted an amendment to the Deregulation Bill currently going before the House of Lords that allows for the publication of information from Birth, Marriage and Death Certificates in England and Wales to be issued otherwise than in the form of a certified copy ..." <http://www.sog.org.uk/news/article/gro-information-on-births-marriages-a nd-death-doesnt-have-to-on-expensive-c/> -- Iain Archer

On 7 Feb at 0:08, Iain Archer <[email protected]> wrote: > I've just seen this, which I presume will be welcome news, on the SoG > website: > > "The Society of Genealogists is delighted to announce that the > Government has accepted an amendment to the Deregulation Bill > currently going before the House of Lords that allows for the > publication of information from Birth, Marriage and Death Certificates > in England and Wales to be issued otherwise than in the form of a > certified copy ..." > <http://www.sog.org.uk/news/article/gro-information-on-births-marriages-and-death-doesnt-have-to-on-expensive-c/> What excellent news and many thanks for passing it on. I wonder how long it will be before the Minister will have made the necessaery regulations and obtained the needed funds to provide this income-producing resource? -- Tim Powys-Lybbe [email protected] for a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/

Good news but as this is an election year there could be a risk of it becoming "unfinished business" and would the next government continue with it, especially if it changes? Also, if "they" see it as a cashcow it could end up just as expensive as a full certificate. Only time will tell or am I being cynical!!! Gordon "Iain Archer" wrote in message news:[email protected] I've just seen this, which I presume will be welcome news, on the SoG website: "The Society of Genealogists is delighted to announce that the Government has accepted an amendment to the Deregulation Bill currently going before the House of Lords that allows for the publication of information from Birth, Marriage and Death Certificates in England and Wales to be issued otherwise than in the form of a certified copy ..." <http://www.sog.org.uk/news/article/gro-information-on-births-marriages-a nd-death-doesnt-have-to-on-expensive-c/> -- Iain Archer

On 07/02/2015 00:08, Iain Archer wrote: > I've just seen this, which I presume will be welcome news, on the SoG > website: > > "The Society of Genealogists is delighted to announce that the > Government has accepted an amendment to the Deregulation Bill currently > going before the House of Lords that allows for the publication of > information from Birth, Marriage and Death Certificates in England and > Wales to be issued otherwise than in the form of a certified copy ..." > <http://www.sog.org.uk/news/article/gro-information-on-births-marriages-and-death-doesnt-have-to-on-expensive-c/> YES!!! But, as others have said, let's see how this plays with the upcoming election. Jon -- Maintainer, soc.genealogy.britain FAQs: www.genealogy-britain.org.uk *** WATCH OUT FOR THE SPAM BLOCK! *** Replace 'deadspam' with 'green-lines' to reply in email!

On 07/02/2015 00:08, Iain Archer via wrote: > I've just seen this, which I presume will be welcome news, on the SoG > website: > > "The Society of Genealogists is delighted to announce that the > Government has accepted an amendment to the Deregulation Bill currently > going before the House of Lords that allows for the publication of > information from Birth, Marriage and Death Certificates in England and > Wales to be issued otherwise than in the form of a certified copy ..." > <http://www.sog.org.uk/news/article/gro-information-on-births-marriages-a > nd-death-doesnt-have-to-on-expensive-c/> The announcement is not quite correct, it is the House of Lords that accepted the amendment it still has to go back to the House of Commons. The Dergulation Bill which contains the agreed amendment is scheduled for a 3rd reading in the House of Lords on 04 March 2015, it then has to go back to the Commons for Consideration of Amendments and then on for Royal Assent. The final stages should be more or less rubber stamping but not always. This amendment (when passed) does not in itself mean that certificates will be cheaper but it does open the way to this happening. We still need to campaign to get not only the Registrar General, Paul Pugh, but the Home Office Minister responsible James Brokenshaw, MP to agree to allowing Private Intiative to make the Historic BMDs available online. If that happens costs will drop drastically. The bulk of the Births and Deaths have already been digitised but Marriages have yet to be started. This means that online historic Births and Deaths could be online within a 12 or 18 months with Marriages following a year or two after. It is only when the records are available online that costs will drop. Cheers Guy