In today's Guardian http://politics.guardian.co.uk/egovernment/story/0,12767,1512480,00.html Probably best not to read this if you're easily outraged by government departments not learning their lesson. peter

Are we to presume that the Family History Centre is to be phased out? The material all transferred to Digital and the books destroyed? Now there's an intriguing thought. The legality of this proposed move is, of course, highly questionable, but that will not stop the government from doing it. If they can bomb people against public opinion, then moving simple records is a mere bagatelle. I wonder if it will be possible to opt out. I can opt out of my records being made public from the electoral role, so why not from the BMD records. That could spike their guns. Peter Amsden, Argyll, Scotland ASAT Productions: http://www.asat.biz Researching Amsden World Wide Outline History: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~amsden Books I have written: http://www.btinternet.com/~amsden AllExperts: http://www.allexperts.com/displayExpert.asp?Expert=38044 Never dump originals - they may be all that is left after the computer age. > From: Peter Christian <peter@spub.co.uk> > Reply-To: SOG-UK-L@rootsweb.com > Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 10:02:12 +0100 > To: SOG-UK-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [SoG] Population database will move to India > Resent-From: SOG-UK-L@rootsweb.com > Resent-Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 03:01:43 -0600 > > In today's Guardian > http://politics.guardian.co.uk/egovernment/story/0,12767,1512480,00.html > > Probably best not to read this if you're easily outraged by government > departments not learning their lesson. > > peter >

In message of 23 Jun, Peter Christian <peter@spub.co.uk> wrote: > In today's Guardian > http://politics.guardian.co.uk/egovernment/story/0,12767,1512480,00.html > > Probably best not to read this if you're easily outraged by government > departments not learning their lesson. Can't see the problem really. Both the core documents and the scans of them willr meian in this country. It is only copies of the scans that will go abroad. Make Poverty History: feed the Indians! -- Tim Powys-Lybbe                                          tim@powys.org              For a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org