On Sun, 28 Dec 2014 12:21:48 +0000, Richard Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >On 28/12/14 10:45, Jon Green wrote: > >> Now, if only we could get online death indices more recent than 2006... > >Does anyone properly understand what is preventing this? I understand >it is not simply that Ancestry et al have decide not to pay for it, and >that a change in government policy is involved, but I've not been able >to determine exactly what the current policy is. As the index post-2006 >is accessible in a small number of libraries and archives, the >government has clearly not decided it should be kept from the public >entirely. > It all started to go downhill when the English GRO was stuffed into HM Passport Office and official paranoia became a consideration affecting access to records.