lots of news But I picked this out has anyone heard about this yet?
BMD project collapses For several years the General Register Office has been working on a major project to digitise birth, marriage, and death records - and this could have provided England & Wales with an equivalent to the online registers at Scotlandspeople .
The controversial closure of the Family Records Centre in Islington was partly justified by these forthcoming changes - but now the private contractor responsible for implementation has withdrawn "by mutual consent", and it isn't clear when, or if, the project will re-start.
My personal opinion is that, with the GRO now part of the Identity and Passport Service, the interests of genealogists are going to come well down in the list of priorities.
BMD project collapses For several years the General Register Office has been working on a major project to digitise birth, marriage, and death records - and this could have provided England & Wales with an equivalent to the online registers at Scotlandspeople .
The controversial closure of the Family Records Centre in Islington was partly justified by these forthcoming changes - but now the private contractor responsible for implementation has withdrawn "by mutual consent", and it isn't clear when, or if, the project will re-start.
My personal opinion is that, with the GRO now part of the Identity and Passport Service, the interests of genealogists are going to come well down in the list of priorities.
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