BMD Indexes.....

[Rab]

Hi

Just a quickie for anyone who knows. I've read and can fully understand why there is a cutoff point with regard to online images for the BMDs. Why though are indexes not available for these cutoff periods online, e.g. death indexes from 1955-2004? It just strikes me as strange as the BMD indexes for England and Wales are available online up until 2003 for via a number of sites.

Rab

[sporran]

Hello Rab,


from the User Group 7th meeting in April 2005:
"Martin reported that access to present day indexes was still being looked at and could be with us this financial year 2005/06. However there have been concerns from groups about privacy issues, gender/adoption matters and there would also be a concern from within GROS in relation to the fulfilment of extract orders."

At the very first meeting in January 2003, I remarked that it was odd that images, not just indexes, could be viewed up to a year or two ago at NRH but not online. Remarks were made then about privacy issues, but it seems strange that privacy depends on the point of delivery. However, rumblings were made that pushing for greater access might lead to the topic being visible and could result in less access.

The recent case in England about a person who applied for a passport was found to have stolen a dead baby's identity over 20 years ago has not helped. Nobody seems to have found out yet who the person really is.

I can bring up this matter at the next UG meeting if you wish, or anyone else wishes.


Regards,

John

[Rab]

Thanks for the information John.

I heard about that case with the passport and it is a good example of how it can be abused. Such a shame that cases like this hold back the majority of us who want to use it in a constructive manner.

Cheers

Rab

[StewL]

Unfortunately in this day and age. We appear to live in a Knee-jerk society. Where if an incident occurs, no matter how rare that type of incident occurs. There seems to be an over-reaction and some form of legislation is introduced. It seems that it is not just a national response, but happening all over the world.

Ah! Privacy concerns and Gender Issues, Gender has nothing to do with it that is just Politically Correct Tripe.

But Privacy Issues! What a joke, if people knew the information that governments and companies has on them they would go hide in a cave in the Himalayas! Most births are put in the paper for all to see, as are death notices!

As far as adoptions are concerned, those records are closed anyway and would not be in the system, or should not be to that extent.

But back to the issue in hand, I dont see an issue with access to more recent BMD's Perhaps reducing the time frames considerably would help to perhaps 5-10 years for all.