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Jane
----- Original Message -----
From: "Josie Morson" <josie(a)themorsons.freeserve.co.uk>
To: <WEST-RIDING-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 3:04 PM
Subject: [WRY] NO MORE FULL BMD CERTIFICATES AFTER 2004
> Hi Listers
> Re: previous mail.
> I accessed the government site
> http://www.statistics.gov.uk/registration/whitepaper/default.asp
> and used the e-mail contact to register a query re the BMD Indexes and the
reply was as follows:-
>
> "Thank you for your email of 25 March about the White Paper 'Civil
> Registration: Vital Change'
>
> We recognise your concerns about how the new framework will affect family
> historians. You refer to the case of someone in their twenties wanting to
> trace their family. As you point out, the restricted information will be
> available to those named in the record, their families and those given
> permission by the individual/family. It is therefore likely that research
> of that kind will continue to be possible.
>
> You mention not being able to access the indexes to birth, death and
> marriage. I would like to clarify that the indexes as we know them know
> will be replaced by an on-line search engine. The search engine will allow
> for quicker and easier searching of records and for browsing which is not
> possible now. Having an online system will mean that family historians
will
> have more choice about where and when they access registration records.
>
> The exact definition of family has yet to be determined. The Government
> will be consulting on this issue in the autumn when it publishes a
detailed
> consultation paper settint out in detail how these proposals will work.
> This consultation document will represent the first stage of the
Regulatory
> Reform Order-making process. This process will be used to make the
> necessary changes to the legislation governing civil registration.
>
> We recognise that the proposed system will affect staffing and income for
> both the General Register Office and for the local registration service.
> The proposed changes will not be introduced overnight, but will be phased
> in over a period of time. There will be a carefully planned implementation
> programme to ensure that impact of the changes (including loss of income)
> are minimised.
>
> I hope this is useful but please get back to me if you have any further
> questions"
> - ------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------
> Re the on-line search engine.
>
> No mention was made of charges for this service, but presume it will be on
the same basis as the 1901 census. Let us hope that this one is not as the
1901, farmed out to a data input company based in India and Sri Lanka.
>
> (The proportion of transcription work undertaken outside the United
Kingdom was 78%")
>
> I hope that more people will register their concerns with the Government,
but can see that Family Research in the future will be a costly business.
>
> Josie M
>
> ______________________________
Hi, here's the latest from the UK's A2A project
Jane
*A2A Update, April 2002 #1*
The latest update of the A2A website at http://www/a2a.pro.gov.uk took place
on Wednesday 3 April. The electronic equivalent of over 129,000 original
catalogue pages was added to the database, which now contains catalogues
from 169 archives repositories across England. These new catalogues include
significant additions from the *Yorkshire Signpost* project, and the first
catalogues from the *British Waterways Virtual Archive Catalogue Project*.
The Yorkshire additions comprise collection-level finding aids covering the
archives holdings of the local authorities of Barnsley, Doncaster, Hull,
Keighley, North Yorkshire, the City of York, and West Yorkshire (Calderdale,
Kirklees, Wakefield, and the Yorkshire Archaeological Society); and of the
Bar Convent, York, and the Borthwick Institute of Historical Research at the
University of York.
The new catalogues from the British Waterways Virtual Archive Catalogue
Project describe the files of the Weaver Navigation Trustees held at the
David Owen Waterways Archive, and canal records from the Hatton and
Hillmorton depots held at Warwickshire County Record Office. Further
catalogues have also been added to A2A from *East Midlands Manuscripts and
Archives*, including finding aids to the archives of the Gell family of
Hopton held at Derbyshire Record Office, and the estate archives of the
Dukes of Portland held at Nottinghamshire Record Office. Additions have
also been made from the following consortium projects:
*@ the Heart of the Community* in the South West;
*Access to Somerset Archives*;
*From Landlord to Labourer* in the South East;
*Governing London*;
*Landscape and Archives* in Eastern England;
*Muck and Brass* in the West Midlands;
*Our Mutual Friends in the North* in the North West;
*Picks and Pistons* in the North East;
the *Tracking Railway Archives Project* (TRAP);
and the *Web of Science History*.
Lastly, various finding aids from Sandwell Community History and Archives
Service and Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Records Service have also
been added to the database.
* * * * * *
Sarah J A Flynn
Regional Liaison Co-Ordinator, A2A
Public Record Office
Kew
Richmond
Surrey TW9 4DU
Tel (direct line): 020 8392 5328
Fax: 020 8392 5281
Email: sarah.flynn(a)pro.gov.uk
www: http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk