FFHS-NEWS GRO INDEX UPDATE

[News from the Federation of Family History Societies]

GRO (General Register Office) digitisation plans appear to have stalled.

In the August edition of Ancestors magazine published by The National
Archives (TNA) it is reported that 'The digitisation of Britain's most
important set of national family history records.has hit the buffers.and
there is currently no timetable to restart the project.'

The report states that the main contractor for the project, Siemens IT
Solutions and Services Ltd, has pulled out. With parts of the project named
DOVE, MAGPIE and EAGLE it is tempting to think of the whole planning
exercise as having been bird brained.

James Hall, the new Registrar General and Chief Executive of the Identity
and Passport Service (IPS), is expecting an emergency internal strategic
review to report its findings by the end of September.

For full details on this visit: www.ffhs.org.uk/news/news080703.php

Maggie Loughran 
Joint Administrator, Federation of Family History Societies 
admin at ffhs.org.uk 
www.ffhs.org.uk