Dear Listers: This article will be of interest to any doing research in the UK, or think they may in the future. I have only pasted in part of this article... please visit the URL below to read the entire message. Also, you can read comments and suggested form letter in the message posted by Charmaine Andresen to the Ayrshire list by visiting http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/AYRSHIRE/2003-10/1065737277 Cheers, Lauren List Admin http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,1058101,00.html Censor of births, deaths and marriages Wednesday October 8, 2003 The Guardian Len Cook, the registrar general, seeks to reassure us on ID cards (Letters, October 7) while omitting any reference to the regulatory reform order, civil registration delivering vital change,under-going a "consultation" period and due to go before aparliamentary committee in spring 2004. This issue will not be debated by MPs and is likely to be rubber-stamped by the committee. Yet this order will, at a stroke, remove from the public in England and Wales a large swathe of information to which we have been entitled since 1837, when civil registration began. .......