Ordering documents at Records

[louisa maud]

Perhaps I miss understood the original query

Hope they aren't due to close the day I am intending to travel there

Louisa Maud

[geno500]

Hi going back to what I was saying about the stupid idea that certain records will have to be 100 years old instead of the 40 year cut off that records centres used before,I have to say that this morning using my free subscription to Ancestry,I looked up a ancestor who was in the army and found his medical records it seems he had a abscess on his penis and was invalided out in 1917,I am so shocked I will have to report Ancestry for breaching rules that have been handed down from above,they will have to look at all the records and remove anything like that,I am absolutely sure they will not it is big money at stake,I would love Ancestry to take on these faceless cretins

[andycand]

Hi going back to what I was saying about the stupid idea that certain records will have to be 100 years old instead of the 40 year cut off that records centres used before,I have to say that this morning using my free subscription to Ancestry,I looked up a ancestor who was in the army and found his medical records it seems he had a abscess on his penis and was invalided out in 1917,I am so shocked I will have to report Ancestry for breaching rules that have been handed down from above,they will have to look at all the records and remove anything like that,I am absolutely sure they will not it is big money at stake,I would love Ancestry to take on these faceless cretins

I don't think the Record Office are being unreasonable at all, when archives and other resources refer to 100 years they are ensuring that information on living people is restricted. The particular book you were after would no doubt include people still alive. As far as Ancestry's WW1 Army records are concerned, all were born well over 100 years ago but Service Records from the c1920s onwards are still held by the Ministry of Defence and there is restricted access.

Andy

[geno500]

Hi Andy just what would people find in a village school admittance book from that era,1909-1922, well in the case of my ancestor he moved with his family from a place near Cambridge in 1916 so he was 9 when he arrived,thats it except that the head teacher a Mr West shaped my ancestors hand writing as the book was like looking at old letters I have,,the records had a policy of 40 years but some zealot has come up with this new idea,the micro fiche say from 1940 with marriages with no father known are still there as are the single parent baptisms,are we to remove them as well,what is crazy is the thought that the person would still be alive,if he was alive I would go and meet him and ask,come to think about it what about 192,or the net where you can find out all sorts of details of living people,it's about time there was some sanity about this issue and people except that the genie is out the bottle and looking at school books from 90 years ago is okay.