On 23 Oct at 6:41, Jeanne Bunting <[email protected]> wrote: > Tim, > > > > > Ban The Microfiche!<< > > We do have to remember that there are people who do not have, or even > want, a computer! Agreed. But when it is a choice between paying £20 for a trip to London, including marmalade sandwiches, and merely struggling over to the local library which just happens to be beside our local supermarket, I go for the computer every time! > However, the basis of your proposal for a commercial online database > makes perfect sense. Maybe you should prepare a formal proposal and > ask the Society to put it before the appropriate User > Group/Panel/Liaison Committee on which it is represented. Good, delighted to hear I have made sense to someone. While the Society's voice must be one that thunders in the genealogical universe, I would reckon it would be worth while canvassing a few other societies to join in before approaching the "appropriate User Group/Panel/Liaison Committee". I will see where I can get to with our local FHS first. And I will get to work shaping a formal proposal. Perhaps it would be a good idea to float this here to see if there are any comments the select few of this mailing list would care to make. Mt first concern is precisely what format is available at the seven repositories that are said to hold the complete index up to 2009 plus previsional indexes up to June 2011. Neither the GRO not the Westminster City Archives are clear on this. I might go up this week to find out for myself, but does anyone know for certain what they provide for 2006 onwards? (The Bridgend site clearly says it is all microfiche.) -- Tim Powys-Lybbe [email protected] for a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/