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Member Since: December 2005 Posts: 12 Send Message	Tracy	Report	30 Jun 2009 19:44
Member Since: December 2005 Posts: 12 Send Message	Hi all A government e-petition to " Allow full and open access to registers of Birth, Marriage and Death from 1837 to 1908" has amazingly only got 5500 signatures. Hard to believe the family history fraternity haven't mobilised themselves much better. http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/OpenBMDrecords/ Anyone who hasn't yet signed up should do so before 22 July when it expires.
Member Since: March 2003 Posts: 7,819 Send Message	InspectorGreenPen	Report	30 Jun 2009 20:17
Member Since: March 2003 Posts: 7,819 Send Message	There was a thread on this last week. Like most IT projects, the Government seriously underestimated the cost and when the company doing the scanning (Siemens, I believe) used up the budget originally allocated, the project was mothballed. A considerable amount of work has aleady been completed and this will not be lost, but in the current economic climate I can't see there being any appetite to allocate funds. Yes, by all means sign the petition to keep the pressure up, but don't hold your breath.