Barriers To Genealogy In The Future

[pinefamily]

It costs too much these days for elections and by-elections, but that's another story. 

[majm]

 

http://www.adri.gov.au/

The Australasian Digital Recordkeeping Initiative (ADRI) is a collaboration between all ten national, state and territory government record institutions in Australia and New Zealand. ADRI is a working group of CAARA.

and

http://www.caara.org.au/ 
Council of Australasian Archives and Records Authorities

and

https://www.archivists.org.au/

and conservators

http://www.slideshare.net/natlibraryofaustralia/protecting-and-preserving-collections-by-prue-mckay

https://aiccm.org.au/conservation-and-restoration-bowman-flag

Cheers,  JM

[jaybelnz]

It costs too much these days for elections and by-elections, but that's another story. 

Another story here too, our 2 postal referendums re changing our flag - estimated cost to be just under 26 million dollars!

The first one, which has been held already, had a question "Do you wish to see our flag changed"

Also had a question to pick one of 4 suggested new flags if you were happy to change. (Loads of them had been submitted previously in a competition)

Very low number of responses to this first referendum!

Next one hasn't come out yet, but 26 million dollars, when we have so many other things that money could be used for!

If the end vote comes out for non change, even more of a waste!

[DavidG02]

Playing Devil's Advocate, a census isn't taken for the benefit of future genealogists and I suppose the arguement would be that it costs too much to commission a census that is only producing statistics that can be found elsewhere.

But where?

Telephone books are thinner than Kate Moss or Twiggy. Newspaper Births are slim pickings and the Deaths are heading that way as well. You don't get the social notes in the paper anymore and people are more transient than ever before.

''On the net'' doesn't cut it as we continually find dead links . My concern is this information about us will be spread around many sites and the cost to recover will be off-putting for some.

I agree the BDM system will still be in place and maybe the one place the records, genealogists want, will be.

[KGarrad]

The census just collects population statistics - you don't find that type of information in phone books or newspaper births!

And it's the Government Bureaucrats that want the information - which can be just as easily collated from other Government Departments computer databases.

As Groom said - censuses were never designed for the use of Family Historians.
Even the BMD records were never put in place for the use of Family Historians

We, as Family Historians, simply try to utilise any information we can. n the future (and we were originally talking of 100 years in the future) almost EVERYTHING will be available online!

[pinefamily]

But will it become accessible, or stored away forever on some government/authority system?

[jaybelnz]

We don't have census info available here anyway, they're destroyed after the stats are done!  Have to rely on Electoral Roll!  That's not so bad, at least that's every 4 years!

[pharmaT]

I feel quite sad at the thought of no 2021 census, that means we won't all be together on a census return.  In 2001 my husband I hadn't met yet and in 2011 he was working away so appeared at another address and then my younger daughter wasn't born yet.

[Andrew Tarr]

I am half a world away, in Australia, and while I read English as my first language, it is becoming obvious that my Australian dictionary has differences in meaning from the English used by English born posters.    To me Andrew's comment is suggestive of lack of morals by the female, but not the male yet both are actively involved in intercourse.  That to me is derogatory, and offensive and sexist.  Australian laws provide for redress.

I am reluctant to extend this topic in view of the offence it causes, but I must express dismay at a law which might encourage anyone to take (or even feign) offence, in order to exploit it to their possible advantage. Maybe the lawyers are the ones who get the main benefit, as usual ?