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Pinefamily has simply misread or misunderstood the sentence. The full quote states “The 17th century was the era of the Old Poor Law, of the Interregnum, of upheaval and mass migration. English courts began sending convicts to the colonies in America and Australia and the 17th century that saw the f...

I, as I assume many older researchers started my research using paper files, with the emergence of home computers I bought a Commodore 64 (in about 1985) and transferred my research to a database stored on a floppy disk allowing a 'huge' 170kb storage. After a few years (early 1990s) I upgraded to a...

The 50 year closure was as Guy says reduced by the Public Records Act 1967 but that Act did not change S 5 (1) of the 1958 Act and did not until the Freedom of Information Act 2000, which did not come into operation until 2005. So therefore the 100-year-closure on Census records and others like Roy...

The PDF you linked to is very interesting and reflects what many of us were writing at the time after witnessing the failure of the FamilySearch website previously. We were also amazed that QinetiQ (or Kinky-Co as one prominent female genealogist dubbed it) was chosen as contractor. The Public Recor...

First I should point out there are a number of errors on the WDYTYA page and in Pete Benton's summary. The much vaunted Census Act 1920 does not block the release of Census for 100 years, it blocks the release of Census information forever, as there is no time limit set. The Census Confidentiality A...

A good calculator for Regnal Years is at
https://aulis.org/Calendar/Regnal_Years.html
Cheers
Guy

The system in Scotland is different that the Census is released by the Scottish Government after 100 years and one day whereas in England they still use the provision that was in the Public Records Act (which does not apply to Scotland) where all records were released after, in this case, 100 years...

I would be interested to see is the Scottish 1921 census is released this year as the law as it stands does not allow its release until 2022. If it is released this year that means the non statutory 100 year rule (no record released before 100 years from the end of the year it was taken/created has ...

I am going from memory here so this might not be currently accurate information. If an Ancestry member dies the tree is still displayed in the current format (i.e. if it was private before the death it stays private, if public it stays public). If the heir(s) of the tree owner have the password, the...

Thunder, Just because documents say who your ancestors were, doesn’t make it so! People lied and had affairs and illegitimate children, but DNA will hopefully cut through to the truth. For example, my own grandmothers marriage certificate shows her father to be Robert Howard, but I’ve found reasona...