You know why JK? If for no other more generous reasons than because this would be an index - people find the certificates they need and then they BUY them. This puts much needed funds into the economy - and all countries particularly welcome overseas funds into their coffers - and then there is more money to sepend on taxpayers needs. Millions of researchers overseas do not have an easy way of identifying certificates and therefore don't purchase certificates - or they tie up staff with requests to do searches - and this is taxpayers money! The NSW Australia experience, where you too can search indices for births from 1788 to 1908, deaths from 1788 to 1978 and marriages from 1788 to 1958, has been positive. The demands on staff has lessened and the sales from these certificates has sky rocketed. Gillian Kelly ----- Original Message ----- From: "J K gen" <gen2mail@googlemail.com> To: "NOTTSGEN" <nottsgen@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 12:20 AM Subject: Re: [NTT] tr: Petition >I might agree if I could ban free usage from overseas. Why should any > part of my taxes be used to subsidise a hobby? > JK > > > On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 11:00 PM, Jean WOOD <jeangrahame@orange.fr> wrote: >> >> I have just received this from another list, done it and hope others will >> follow suit - it's easy to do. >> >> Jean >> >> >> >> >>> >>> This is something everyone should do. From a member of EOLFHS >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------- >>> > I have managed to get 10 Downing Street to allow an e-petition looking >>> > for >>> > support to have open access to the registers of Births, Marriages and >>> > Deaths from 1837 to 1908. >>> > >>> > This one act would enable all family historians and genealogists to >>> > find >>> > the right family certificate without having to purchase a copy >>> > certificate >>> > which turns out to be incorrect. >>> > >>> > I hope you can support me in this as I feel it will make family >>> > history >>> > just that little bit easier, after all these registrations are over >>> > 100 >>> > years old. >>> > >>> > The link is http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/OpenBMDrecords/ >>> > >>> > > > > Notts Surname List > > http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/notts.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NOTTSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >