And a message on one of the other Lists suggests that FreeBMD will be restoring their 1903 - 1983 data in April as well. ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Loveluck" <james.loveluck@numericable.fr> To: <LOVELOCK-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2003 5:06 PM Subject: PRO 1837 site > Hello all, > > > A couple of weeks ago we exchanged several messages about the Web site > > www.1837online.com > > which was advertising a service (with reasonable charges) for accessing > images of GRO records. The service is still not available, but on the > Web site they claim that they will have permission from the GRO to go > on-line on 1 April - see text below from the Web site. > > I hope its not an April 1st joke! > > James > > ------ > > Updated Friday 21st February 2003. > > Family Research Link is absolutely delighted to announce that on the > 10th February, after almost three years of our ongoing discussions and > negotiations with the General Record Office, the decision has been made > to relax access to index information less than 100 years old. These > changes are due to take effect from 1st April 2003, at which date we > will be pleased to open our site to you with the indexes from 1837 to > 2001. We hope that you will be as thrilled as we are with this outcome, > which we believe benefits the genealogical community worldwide. > > > > ==== LOVELOCK Mailing List ==== > Lovelock family history Web pages: > http://perso.numericable.fr/~lovjames/family-history/lovelock/ > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >