Re: Free Findmypast

On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:49:53 +0100, Ye Old One <usenet@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:06:37 +0100, Tim Powys-Lybbe <tim@xxxxxxxxx>
enriched this group when s/he wrote:

On 16 Jun at 12:40, Ye Old One <usenet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You seem to be missing the point, that the records are OURS and that
they should be available to us on a non profit basis by their
custodians - our government.

You have it wrong. The ownership is not OURS. You have decided to
think that it is OURS and produced no basis in law for that thought.

Then who the hell do you think it belongs to?

If the spirit of the various Public Records Act is followed then any
"historic" registers (i.e. too old to contain information of living
persons or even those more recent if general time limits are applied)
ought to be in the custody of the National Archives and/or county
record offices. The information is "ours" in that context.
.

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