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Petition update, 18 February 2008

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Local Register Offices (part of Local Government) are the primary contact for people wanting copies of Birth, Marriage or Death certificates. GRO Southport is a secondary contact having photocopies of the primary locally held registers. As such, Local Register Offices hold a mine of information for UK residents and Family Historians alike. These records are found and managed almost universally by old hand written indexes in cloth bound books and ledgers. While the public can legally access the indexes in person at each office, this mode of access is unacceptable in this day and age. Also, that any modern day business can still work like this in the 21st century is appalling. This petition seeks support to force local Register Offices to electronically index their records from 1837 to 2007 when a new on-line electronic registration system was introduced. While some areas have already opted to do this under the auspices of the UKBMD umbrella, and publish data on freely searchable web databases, other areas show no such inclination. This petition seeks to mandate that action.

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• Harry Hunt
• ann roberts
• Anthony Measham
• Carol Leigh
• Ivor Davies
• Colin J Payne
• wendy lipinski
• Susan King
• Mrs M Seabridge
• Sally wills
• Francis Clifford Peters
• Cynthia R Carroll
• Anthony R. Cartwright
• p.d.spencer
• Robert Bowen
• Carole Fordham
• Sue Manley
• David Cottrell
• Catherine Turpin
• BARRY ATKINS
• F J A Oakes
• Anne Clark
• Nick Tyrrell
• Frances Reynolds
• Frances Harrison
• Brenda Stephens
• Carol Beaumont
• Thomas E Brown
• Jean Gore
• jo almond
• Ann Coulthard
• Doreen Travis
• Richard Lane
• David Cooke
• Chris Britt
• Susan Cox
• Keith Jacobs
• William Birchall
• kevin fordham
• SARAH STREET
• Christine Ravenscroft
• T. Lamsdale
• Miss. Hazel Graham
• Amanda Fairhurst
• Stephen Emlyn-Jones
• Clive Alexander
• Dean Dewis
• Gillian Fawcett
• Linda Hendry
• Brynda Ashton-Jones
• John William Butler
• Ian Beach
• Martine Egan
• John Ayton
• Simone Bryant
• J Bryant
• Richard Thickett
• Robert Phillips
• Sylvia ann De Klerk
• Ann DAY
• Roy Wheeler
• l.m.westall
• Jean Kitchin
• Joy Nichol
• J. J. Carmichael
• james molloy
• stuart grady
• Janet M. Rowley
• David Shaw
• Stanley Edward Taylor
• Susan Doreen Clark
• bridget wilde
• Julie Brindley
• Alec Newnes
• Maurice Sheppard
• Wm. Longmore
• Peter Willetts
• David Stokes
• Michael Wells
• Jean Langdell
• L. Tagg
• Peter Mackay
• David W Woodall
• jayne williams
• Gillian Cash
• Jill Chape
• Juliana Layton
• Robert Newell
• John Hunt
• catherine burrows
• joan evason
• Alison Devlin
• Brian Slim
• Clinton Platt
• Lesley Peplow
• Catherine Atkin
• Peter Millard
• Patricia Morgan
• Ann Brooker
• Kenneth Cyril Stevens
• Judy Mellowes
• d.sheldon
• Sarah Middleton
• Michael Bird
• Clive Jones
• Nicky Ward
• Jill King
• Kenneth W Bibb
• Mark Ryan-Daly
• Alan Stanier
• Michael Jakeman
• Wendy Cooksey
• Kate Torode
• Stephen Collins
• Victor Garvey
• Marian Beaufort
• John Tunnicliffe
• DAVID PEARSALL
• Rosemary Dorado
• Colin Ellis
• Fran Crisp
• Hilary Thomas
• John Simon Florentin
• John E Dean
• Dee NIGHTINGALE
• Doreen Thomas
• K.Doyle
• Clive Law
• Pauline Gibbons
• Joanne Melvin
• Fiona Caskey
• Margaret Langford
• John F Holden
• Thomas Dicken
• Hazel Rodgers
• Andrew Goff
• PJ Wakelam
• Eileen Cassidy
• Carole Ashworth
• Janet Ellis
• Nicola Ward
• Helen Warwick
• Tom Reeves
• Martin James
• Terry Rogers
• sheila plimmer
• Anthony Field
• Keith Leake
• Peter Griffiths
• Jean L.M.Hicks
• shaun
• Patricia Coyne
• Bill Pickup
• Neil Moorcraft
• Philip James Hammond
• Marion Stoddard
• WENDY J DOBSON
• Mike John
• Shelley French
• Maxine Fairhurst
• joan stanway
• Laurence Perry
• Amanda Piper
• Val Sheldon
• Iris Adley
• Kenneth Chambers
• Jean Toms
• CAROLINE BARBER
• C J Billinton
• Ann Hartley
• John BIllings
• Peter Harris
• Jane Yonge
• Carla-Marie List
• David Wilkins
• Michael Noakes
• Deborah Beeston
• Robert Holmes
• Susan Kerr
• g wilding
• Judith Dyer
• Lesley Foster
• ALAN SHAW
• catherine hamilton
• Tim H-Jones
• MARY KNIGHT
• Alan Brown
• Eric Morris
• Daphne Fallon
• Robert & Lylia Graham
• Alan Reed
• r.g.cartwright
• Charles Colwell
• Wendy Warne
• B W Bishton
• S WALLACE
• Will Fancy
• mr, g. l. backler
• Ian Reed
• David Dyer
• Adrian Vivash
• eleanor alexander
• Oliver Howard
• Maureen Gardner
• Terry White
• IAN G. WILSON
• Thomas J Sayers
• Phil Hynes
• Victor Marson
• rita weightman
• Rachel Smith
• Richard Peters
• Julian Ravenscroft
• Patricia Hay
• Susan Tirant
• Stephanie Caplen
• Alistair Stewart
• Sarah Blakemore
• Carole Fry
• jan jennings
• Alfred Jones
• Lois Hopkins
• Brian Hartley
• Thomas Norrell
• Y. Grimes
• Patricia D Smith
• John A Courtney
• Stephen Pickles
• Gordon Smith
• Dorothy Sorrell
• Elizabeth Jeffery
• Robert Bond
• Helen Scott
• Pauline Lincoln
• Victoria Theaker
• Valerie A. Norris
• Wilfrid George Duncombe
• SHIRLEY BURNETT
• Janis Burhouse
• Pauline Bayley
• Adrian F Brown
• Barry Gibson
• John Avery
• Richard Huggett
• George Palmer-Howlett
• Stephen Tidman
• Suzanne Ward
• Scott McMartin
• michael mooney
• Janet Elizabeth SORFLEET
• Ken Brunt
• T Kirkman
• David Heath
• B.R.Doble
• Avril E Webb
• beryl mellor
• Robin Thompson
• Philip walters
• anthony sharpe
• Kenneth A Harrington
• Peter Billington
• Chris Norcross
• Stephen Orme
• Linda Cinnamond
• Jenny Smith
• Barbara Mothershaw
• Paul Scott
• Malcolm Wardle
• Chris Harrington
• maurice irvine
• Julia Fuller
• Mrs.Pat Constable
• Patricia Hughes
• Angela Fishwick
• Carol Porter
• Harry Morrow
• Jean M Bell
• pamela billington
• Sandra Clegg
• sharon mallalieu
• Jean Volpi
• thomas cummings
• Patricia Powell
• ANGELA LYNN DEWHURST
• Warren Meads
• Helen Knibb
• David Murch
• Marjorie Aspden
• Ronald W Davis
• daphne fairfax
• Stuart Davies
• ken greenhalgh
• Geoffrey Bryant
• Godfrey Higley
• LORI RAUTENBACH
• julianne dougherty
• Rachel Williams
• Arthur Pallett
• Lilian Knowles
• Linda Cockram
• annette haines
• Rodney J Derrick
• Kate Vernon
• C Layden
• Diane Hedeker
• David Myers
• Anthony J. AUSTIN
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• Donna curtis
• Patricia Richardson
• Paul Richardson
• Sonja Broad
• M. Chaplin
• Anne Marsden
• jean wardman
• Edward A Trowsdale
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• Veronica Scotton
• margaret jackson
• Barbara Dickinson
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• Gareth Morgan
• John Britton
• Claire Fraser
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• Christine Chappell
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• Bev Ashwell
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• Nancy Williams
• Michael Kimber
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• MCYOUNG
• marylin murphy
• Kim Sullivan
• Elizabeth Sullivan
• Margaret Jones
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• Janette Lyon
• Lesley Embury
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• Josephine Caird
• Valerie Corthorn
• Malcolm MacDougal Milner
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• Peter Williams
• Colin Lewis
• J Seys
• brian varney
• Peter Jackson
• Stephen Hollinshead
• Elizabeth Tebbs
• angela taylor
• Gwyn Bailey
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• Patrick G Delaney
• Catherine Hammett
• Peter Mathews`
• Charlotte Hughes
• Pat Knowles
• alan thompson#
• Jean Smith
• William Watson
• Denise Bull
• Alyson Bull
• s. dowling
• Kath Turner
• Anthony Timmins
• Joan Lowe
• Penny Smith
• yvonne marshall
• Stephen M. Weston
• Jill Schinas
• Richard Gregory
• Alan Green
• june dunn
• Nicholas Cross
• Robert James WHITE
• Gareth J Hughes
• HARRY TURNER
• barbara batty
• Jill Davidson
• Jill Whitehead
• andrew hepworth
• KJagger
• Janet France-Sargeant
• Bob Gregory
• Joan Gregory
• J Brown
• William C Beattie
• Anne Wells
• derek Wright
• C Whitelock
• Ryan Twaits
• Peter William Wells
• Adam Leyshon
• linda a sharples
• helen m. vaughan
• Tom Johnston
• Fay Owen
• L R Beckler
• Joseph Dodman Wilson
• Jim Watson
• ALAN ROGER FAIRLIE
• Mrs A Williams
• Lindy Dawson
• michael edge
• Vic Plumb
• John Evered
• Bob Evered
• juliet roberts
• Christopher Hughes
• Anthony Dumican
• michael day
• Arthur Hooks
• Steve Bottomley
• Lynda Bottomley
• Judith Carlyle
• elizabeth till
• Kim
• John Charles Evere
• S. L. Whelan
• Amelia Rowe
• Shelagh Boardman
• Jane Hyatt
• Stephen Parry
• Margaret Underwood
• Linda Ashworth
• Craig Cook
• Gill Evans
• Jeffrey Carter
• ANN PATON
• mrs susan slater
• gillian parmenter
• Cyrus Pearce
• Sally Milsom
• John Seaton
• Robert Todd
• michael Donnelly
• LYNN MACE
• Audrey Fuller
• Paul Wm Turnbull
• D M Hornby
• Catherine Rutherford-Doak
• Norma Turnbull
• Leila Gibson
• John Collins
• Jacqueline HARRIS
• Cicely Landimore
• john kenyon
• Hilary Thompson
• Doreen Jacques
• carole perkins
• Penelope Cavell
• Derek A ADDERLEY
• Russell Morris
• Averil Lewin
• KathkeenTodd
• PETER HOWARD
• colin hewitt
• Pauline Wilson
• Annette Kinsey
• Heather Ferguson
• Don Cross
• Ian Preston
• Sheila Molland
• Laurence Nichol
• HEATHER CHRISTOPHER
• Lyn Anderson
• john stafford
• Patrick Thomas
• Pauline Haddock
• Stuart Leather
• Bob Williams
• avril corbett
• John Stroud
• Kelvin Jenkin
• Gary Dodd
• David Porter
• toby rodgers
• Cherise Vane
• mark woodbine
• BERNARD Kimpton
• Nigel Wilson
• Laura James
• Daphne Wenn
• Dan Stevens
• Yvonne Goldwater
• David Collison
• J W Allen
• Maurice Edward Drake

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