I wish I could sign this! I hope that UK citizens will do so!
Petition in UK To Allow
Public Access to Birth, Marriage and Death Records
Jan Meisels Allen, Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring
Committee, reports a petition has started to open the civil registration
records (birth, marriage and death) both online and at the registration office
for England and Wales. Currently, the only way to obtain a civil record is to
submit a payment to the General Register Office (GRO). The person behind this
campaign is Guy Etchells, the man who is behind the push to get the 1911 Census
released. Etchells says by making the records immediately accessible it is a
win-win as the GRO can focus on the “core task of recording and administering
current registrations” and genealogical organizations may wish to digitize the
records and the government would receive licensing fees. The petition is
available at http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/62779.
Only UK citizens, ex-pat, or people actually live in the UK can sign this
petition.
Additional information is at http://www.gouldgenealogy.com/2014/09/download-uk-bdm-
records-maybe.
(Reposted from Nu? What's New?" The E-zine of Jewish Genealogy.)
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