----- Original Message ----- From: "Ruth C" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 3:09 PM Subject: PRO proposals - please read > Dear listers, > > I wonder if others are aware of proposals by the PRO to destroy some > 'overseas records' due to needing more storage space? > Responses are needed by the 15th of November so please do read to the end of > this email. > > I have not been able to find any announcement on the PRO website, but there > is a good summary on the Federation of Family History Societies page at: > http://www.ffhs.org.uk/Societies/Liaison/News.htm > > May I urge everyone to visit this page. You can download the entire > proposal document using a link there. (You need Adobe Acrobat but that is > freely available on the internet.) > > You may feel that as you do not have any 'overseas' events, it doesn't > concern you; please look at the FFHS page anyway! We all know about > mistakes in records, particularly copies, and sometimes even in > originals.... > The PRO will always have 'problems' with storage space, and the FFHS and the > Society Of Genealogists have already offered to take these 'spares' so they > could be saved for checking in the future. (Sometimes copies have been > corrected and are more accurate than originals.) > > 'Overseas' includes bmd's at sea, on aircraft and hovercraft amongst other > places! > > Please do look at the FFHS page and send a response to the PRO. Once the > decision to destroy the records is taken they will be gone forever - like so > many others! I understand that they were looking to re-house some Wills and > were approached by the SOG with an offer of safe-keeping. When they looked > for the Wills they realised that they had been destroyed 10 years ago! > > Many emails from individual 'users' could make the difference! > > Ruth in Brum > > > > > ==== SCT-FIFE Mailing List ==== > . > >