Barriers To Genealogy In The Future

[smudwhisk]

one barrier to future researchers will be when couples choose to have their marriage ceremony overseas.   As far as I'm aware there is no requirement for the marriage to be registered with the home authorities, so it obviously won't be so easy for future researchers to track down.

I was married overseas but still had to post Banns with local Registry Office. Not sure if something will be recorded but I shall give them a call next week to find out. I am Scottish which may be different from England/Wales/N Ireland?

Annie

Gov.uk website says as long as you follow local rules, it doesn't generally have to be registered in the UK, although I think their are different rules for some countries.

https://www.gov.uk/marriage-abroad

[BBW99]

Countries like Australia are so paranoid about their ex-convict population that they destroy all information gathered as soon as they have gleaned numerical statistics from the information. The irony is their indigenous population have an oral heritage that goes back centuries and even that is being destroyed by the immigrants’ privacy ideals.

Cheers
Guy

With respect, one does wonder where some people get their information

[3sillydogs]

I think a lot of immigrants names were phoenetically written because it was probably not possible to write down the original name either due to pressure on officials to process the sheer numbers arriving at times or illiteracy amongst the immigrants and the officials just writing on the forms what they heard, especially with regard to Eastern European names, many of which were anglicized at ports of entry.

I know with one branch of my lot I have them suddenly appearing on the 1891 census with one spelling of the name only to have them appear on the next one and other certificates with another spelling.  I only found them there because I managed to back track with information that I knew was correct.  When they arrived in the UK and exactly from where I have no idea only that they were born in Russia..............

[DavidG02]

Spoke to my nephew who was married in Bali Indonesia

He said he had to register in both places SA and Indo. 2 ceremonies - 1 traditional Balinese and 1 here in Oz to make it legal. He has 2 certificates as well.

[DavidG02]

Not sure we can be confident or comfortable that the internet will keep all of our records safe. From server issues to space and corruption of our own laptops/PCs there are many ways we can lose information.

Can we be confident resources will be available? If places like FindMyPast and Ancestry go bust will someone else step in? Highly likely but at what cost or how much damage to personal records etc

[Wiggy]

Never mind - our descendants won't be done out of a lot of fun if all our lookings are lost!        They can have the enjoyment of doing it all again! - as I have for my family - finding out mistakes others have made along the way and probably making some of my own as well. 

[jaybelnz]

Very good Wiggy! How could we possibly take all that pleasure and fun away from our descendants!

That just wouldn't be fair now, would it! 

[pinefamily]

Pleasure??
Where's my still looking for list......

[Andrew Tarr]

Can we be confident resources will be available? If places like FindMyPast and Ancestry go bust will someone else step in? Highly likely but at what cost or how much damage to personal records etc

I have a feeling that the current genealogy thing may turn out to be a generational fad.  It's popular now because of the steady growth of new info on the relatively new internet.  Twenty years on that will all have changed, with ever more ridiculous electronic gizmos becoming trendy.  Perhaps we can click an icon and the 'net will do a two-minute search going back 6 generations.    Will there be any hard copy?