DoVE project

[BridgetM]

I appreciate I may have missed a previous update on this subject,
but I was heartened today when I read this message which was posted on Sussex Family History Group via Rootsweb.

Thank you for your email to GRO Communications this morning about the
>digitisation project, DoVE. Whilst it's disappointing for us that the
>project has encountered delays, I can reassure you that IPS and GRO do
>remain committed to completing the digitisation of all records, and it is
>not the case that the DoVE project has been cancelled. What we are
>currently doing is identifying the best course of action to take the
>project forward, bearing in mind the need for us to use public funds as
>efficiently as possible in the completion of this task.
>
>We hope to be able to put an update on the GRO website in the next few
>weeks, but the item currently there, to which you refer, accurately
>reflects the current situation.
>
>With best wishes,
>
>Selwyn Hughes
>Communications Manager
>GRO Communications
>General Register Office
>Identity and Passport Service
>0151 471 4242

[Little Nell]

Which means they will be putting it out to tender again. But whatever problems they had with Siemens, who had a 3-year-contract, will surely still apply.

In the meantime, we don't have access to the original GRO ledgers.

[Olde Crone Holden]

*Snorts. Tosses head. Departs*

OC

[Little Nell]

Not that OC and I are cynics, you understand...