Thanks for your kind comments Ann. We might as well face it that the battle of personal privacy in a computer society is a battle that was lost years back. Government data banks especially health ones already have all that data with minimal controls on access from computer gurus. The census information has a least a bit more security as personal data is kept separate from the summative information that is released and personal information is retained for a sufficient number of years to get around personal security concerns. Even here a computer guru can probably walk through the data banks with impunity. Have a good day Mrs. Ann Halford(Hunt) Al Al ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ann Hunt" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 9:33 AM Subject: Re: [BELFAST] Census Information > Hello Al and List > > Al wrote: > > > Not to neglect either that this should be an equality rights issue for > > millions of woman and other persons who may be affected. Because a person > > in a marriage chooses to adopt the surname of a spouse should not mean > > that their surname identity is lost forever on the census rolls. The > > insertion of the non sexist previous surname(s) if any question, would > > satisfy that demand. > > > > Wonderful thought Alan but I doubt it will come to pass in the near future > in the UK. I believe that some of the Australian censuses(?) do list the > female's maiden name and maybe other countries do too. Though it would > probably throw up issues of more governmental and institutional prying. > > The tradition of calling a woman Mrs followed by her husband's name was one > of those Victorian traditions I think. And it really bugs me when people do > it to me now - as if I have no seperate identity. But thank you for your > idea - it had never occurred to me that I could take a non-feminist stand > and use a genealogical stance instead! > > Regards - Ann Hunt (aka Mrs John Halford!) > > > > ==== IRL-BELFAST-CITY Mailing List ==== > Comments, suggestions and criticisms regarding list matters should be sent privately to the List Administrator at ~ > [email protected] > > ============================== > Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for > ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx