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i wish it were poss to access my ancestors medical records... :-)

I read this post with interest, in some respects i do agree with Cane, the cost does go up. I have used various offices to obtain certs and its obviously not a fee set by the government as it varies depending on which offices you order from.

Cane......try googling it, i am sure that i have read somewhere that you can obtain medical records but only for a deceased person.

If you had stuck to GRO Val, the price has been the same for the last 4 years

The only advantage I can see about "going local" is that you might be able to "have a looksee" before paying and then if it's not your relative then you save money...I cannot fault GRO...

I shall not sign it thank you. I count myself fortunate, since my research actively commenced in 1999, that I have been able to obtain so much information, from the Mormons' records initially including the 1881 census right up to quite recent records. I prefer to try to find out about the social history, the living conditions, housing, employment, transport etc, there is so much to discover about the how as well as the when.


Joan:
http://www.genesreunited.co.za/boards/board/tips_board/thread/1262438
Local register offices that supply certificates

http://www.genesreunited.co.za/boards/board/tips_board/thread/777637
Local Reg Offices that DON'T do Family History

http://www.genesreunited.co.za/boards/board/tips_board/thread/766478
applying to a register office for a certificate

I'd LOVE to see it....................

I'm selfish :-(

Gins that's all I'd expect from a blade ha ha!!!

Jude


Cheeky mare ;-)

Up The Blades

Down The Cottagers

Dam footy hooligans have invaded the thread :-P


Your supposed to do your hooliganism out of sight and round the back:-|

Roy ;-) :-D

I have signed it because i wish to know where my parents were in 1921, i cannot find out anything about them after 1911 when my father was 1 yr old and my mother was born in 1912.

I have no living family to ask about either of them.

If i have to wait another 7 yrs i might not be around myself to see it.

I think it will be an extremely useful censes for family historians, cos it was after WW1 that people really started to move around the country. I have loads of gaps for relatives who were of service age in 1914 who disappeared to me after that.

I have signed the (badly worded) petition. I hope it works. People talk about privacy of data but with a bit of stealth you can find out anything about anybody nowadays. The powers that be ought to be protecting the rights of today's living people, not refusing to disclose info on people who will be 93 or more years old.

As the census in 1931 was destroyed, and there wasn't one in 1941, this 1921 census is the last opportunity for us grey-haired researchers to find out what happened to relatives after WW1. Most of us researchers will be in our 70s by the time of the official release of the 1921 census, and we will be dead by the time of the next one in 2051. It's the last real set of records that any FH researchers will ever use.

Pity Macc Town didn't do their stuff against Sheffield Wednesday in the cup replay!

Roy ...I am NOT a hooligan lol :-) and Gins doesn't look like that (if she does there is NO WAY she is a hooligan) and Gins - I'm not a cottager :-S YOU can call me a Peacock or a Lilywhite or a Pill**k :-)

Madmeg....get what you are saying; but let's face it if it released in 2021 - and I realise there is no guarantee of this - it's not the end of the world. I, personally, will be 64 - cue The Beatles - in 2021 :-)

Stella - have faith - you must be 82 at most :-)

Jude

Well Jude I will be 70. Those 6 years make a difference. I am not well now. I appreciate that is not relevant to the argument. I can't see why releasing now, 6 years early, is an issue.

I cannot understand why if this census was Promised NOT to be released for 100 years...some think it is ok to break that promise....just because of their hobby

Yes there is one person I would like to know where he was in 1921......but it wont happen....so be it

I will be in my late 70's, and am ill like Madmeg so will probably never get to see it....i don't see a good argument for not releasing it... what harm can it do now?

I have mixed feelings - the 1921 will contain details of lots of people who are no longer with us (plus it would be useful to my research), but I agree it was completed with the 100 year rule. That said, however, anyone can find my birth registration on FreeBMD and order a copy for the purpose of identity theft.............which is worse?????

Our privacy laws are a little odd and conflicting. As you say Vanessa, BMD certs are freely available!

Jude, I know you are a Leeds fan........I was referring to cup win over Fulham!

How can we beat a premiership team and still be struggling to stay in league one :-0

I appreciate the 100 year ruling but, couldn't they block out the children's details on the census, if they released it early?

After all, the children are easily found on freebmd using the mothers maiden name

i have children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.. i am quite sure if they asked me about something i promised to keep secret all those years ago i would break the promise in order to enlighten them .I am quite sure that my deceased parents would also willingly give permission for their details to be released...if requested.

Well Reggie, we are all entitled to our own viewpoint and i have signed the petition along with thousands of other people.