Re: Electronic BMD Access Petition

I think that the explosion of interest in genealogy indicates that it may be
more than just a hobby. Identity is a factor in the emotional wellbeing of
some people. Maybe it should be a bit like prescriptions, free to people on
benefits but the waged pay a reasonable figure. Otherwise access may become
for the educated middle-classes only. The problem of overseas people getting
access is similar to the BBC website. Why should the non-licence payers
abroad get access to all of the beeb website and not just the World Service
news pages? The revenue would help reduce the licence fee for us if they
paid for the other pages. I guess the reasons that they haven't done it is a
technological one and perhaps this would be the same for an electronic BMD
resource. How do you differentiate between taxpayers and non-taxpayers,
waged and unwaged?


"Charani" <SGBNOSPAM@ mail2genes.invalid> wrote in message
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On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:54:34 GMT, David Murphy wrote:

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This is a total waste of time, a sop to the voting public to make them
think they can influence government.

It isn't going to work. It was never intended to work.

For the vast majority of us, family history and genealogy is an
absorbing hobby and nothing more, little different from coin
collecting or bellringing. Why should or would the government care
about hobbyists?

If there's to be free access on a local or national level, then it's
down to the people who want the access to actually get out there and
start transcribing the records and making them available via FreeBMD,
FreeREG, FreeCEN, FHSs, record offices, etc, etc, not expect even more
money to be wasted on what are (in the greater scheme) unimportant
matters.

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