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From: "Lawrence Greenall" <>
Subject: RE: No Response/Trying again ROBERTSON
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 21:03:45 +0100
In-Reply-To: <BAY2-DAV86gVs1tIzmQ00027cbd@hotmail.com>


Thanks for the correction Clive. I wasn't very clear in my terminology. Of
course the actual GRO indexes don't have a legal 100-year closure, only the
records themselves. I had however (wrongly) assumed that 1837online would
have stopped listing post 1900-ish entries in its index for either
commercial or practical reasons - either or both - but I obviously need to
pay them a new visit!

But I do believe that parish registers are bound, like other original data
such as GRO records and census returns, by the legal 100-year rule. Only the
indexes to them would be freely accessible. If you have found more recent
church records on Ancestry, were they British or American? The American
closure period is only 70 years.

Regards, Lawrence

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Clive Holden [mailto:]
> Sent: 25 August 2004 09:26
> To: Lawrence Greenall;
> Subject: Re: No Response/Trying again ROBERTSON
>
>
> Lawrence,
>
> Slightly mis-leading statement here. The "hundred year rule" only
> apply to
> the Census and not to parish records, GRO indexes and
> certificates. Some of
> this info is available "on-line" on sites such as Free BMD, 1837
> OnLine and
> Ancestry amongst others. Other " under hundred year old" info can
> be found
> in Record Offices and Family History Centres.
>
>
> Clive Holden (Kent GB)

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