Hi Everyone, As you will know the 1921 UK census is not due for release until 2022, but if we can get 100,000 signatures the government will consider early release. The 1931 census results were destroyed in a fire and there was no census in 1941, so this will be the last for a long time. The link to the petition is: http//epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/49199 If as many of us as possible sign this petition, it might just work. If you could forward to as many friends and family who you know will support this idea and sign up! Best wishes David Bexhill, East Sussex, UK

On Fri, 31 Jan 2014 09:36:45 +0000 David Hopkins <davidhopkins_bexhill@hotmail.com> wrote: Hello David, >As you will know the 1921 UK census is not due for release until 2022, >but if we can get 100,000 signatures the government will consider early >release. No they won't. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)rad never immediately apparent" This is the fifty first state of the USA Heartland - The The

Hello David, I have just signed the petition using website https://submissions.epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/49199 Kind regards Barbara Lewis Mallyon -----Original Message----- From: David Hopkins Sent: Friday, January 31, 2014 9:36 AM To: sussex-plus@rootsweb.com Subject: [SXP] 1921 Census Hi Everyone, As you will know the 1921 UK census is not due for release until 2022, but if we can get 100,000 signatures the government will consider early release. The 1931 census results were destroyed in a fire and there was no census in 1941, so this will be the last for a long time. The link to the petition is: http//epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/49199 If as many of us as possible sign this petition, it might just work. If you could forward to as many friends and family who you know will support this idea and sign up! Best wishes David Bexhill, East Sussex, UK

Even though I whole-heartedly support this petition in principle, I think one must be realistic. This question came up in parliament some years ago (under the last Labour government) and was dealt with pretty decisively then - the 100 year rule was enshrined in the legislation for the 1921 census and was not just "customary", as it had been before. No government is going to use parliamentary time to repeal a single paragraph of legislation just to satisfy a group of people with a particular hobby. Given the number of people in the 1921 who are still alive, there might well be a campaign *against* the general release of the records. Also, sorry to sound pessimistic but there is no hope of getting 100,000 signatures. There was a well publicised petition in 2007 on reducing the census closure period, which closed with 23,602 signatories (I think this is what prompted the parliamentary statement) , and there was a later one which got even fewer. The correct approach has been demonstrated by Guy Etchells - you ask TNA to allow you to see the record for a particular household and then, when they refuse, you appeal to the Information Commissioner. This is how we got the 1911 census earlier than 2011 in spite of the government's earlier refusal. However, it's one thing for the IC to overturn custom three years before the anticipated release of a census and quite another for him to override legislation seven years in advance of release. peter -----Original Message----- From: sussex-plus-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:sussex-plus-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of David Hopkins Sent: 31 January 2014 09:37 To: sussex-plus@rootsweb.com Subject: [SXP] 1921 Census Hi Everyone, As you will know the 1921 UK census is not due for release until 2022, but if we can get 100,000 signatures the government will consider early release. The 1931 census results were destroyed in a fire and there was no census in 1941, so this will be the last for a long time. The link to the petition is: http//epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/49199 If as many of us as possible sign this petition, it might just work. If you could forward to as many friends and family who you know will support this idea and sign up! Best wishes David Bexhill, East Sussex, UK ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SUSSEX-PLUS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.3462 / Virus Database: 3684/7046 - Release Date: 01/30/14