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Member Since: November 2004 Posts: 7 Send Message	IronPuddler	Report	6 Dec 2008 09:11
Member Since: November 2004 Posts: 7 Send Message	How many people feel that these records should be made available for viewing at local records offices or on the web. Anybody who was born between these dates has been dead a long time and even those who were married between these dates would be long gone. By having access to these records (Not the Index) it would make life a lot better for genealogists and family historians. I am quite happy to pay for copies of a certificate, however selecting the right one would be a lot easier with open access to the registrations. When I order copy certificates I only get a photocopy of the original, so why not produce a photo copy of the originals at local record offices and pictures of them on the web. I understand that The Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 and The 1949 Marriage Act only allow for a search of the Indexes but not a search of the registers in the custody of the Superintendent Registrar. It seems strange that records that are this old should be protected for so long, after all we have access to the census records after a hundred years so why not to the registration records of births, marriages and deaths?