Proposed Changes to the Edited Electoral Registers May Affect Family History Research

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1. Barry Chapman says:

   December 2, 2009 at 9:40 pm

   While not yet a member of SoG, as a family historian/genealogist, if they’re the only choices on offer, then my response is to choose option 6. I’m not aware of the UK’s ‘privacy legislation’, or whether it even exists, but if access to the Electoral Register is denied, then other people data acquisition routes will be created which may be less controlled and even more intrusive. Consider the USA with instruments such as Zabasearch, which I admit I find very useful as administrator of the Claypoole Y-DNA Surname Project!