From: charlesellson@btinternet.com   
      
   On Thu, 11 Nov 2021 14:02:59 +0000, Peter Johnson   
    wrote:   
      
   >On Thu, 11 Nov 2021 04:33:47 -0600, Nigel Reed   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   >>I love this bit:   
   >>"The paper records will be kept secure by The National Archives at their   
   >>offsite storage facility and readers at The National Archives at Kew   
   >>will be directed to the digital version. This is to ensure the   
   >>preservation of the paper records for years to come."   
   >>   
   >>Ok...so the records will be kept safe, but nobody can actually see   
   >>them, so which future generations are going to be able to see them?   
   >>Aren't we the future generation?   
   >>   
   >   
   >The offsite storage facility is a salt mine in Cheshire. I had had   
   >documents, not census, retrieved from it. I would expect that if a   
   >good case were made census documents would be retrieved. For example   
   >the earlier digitised censuses were created from poor quality   
   >microfilm, which is OK in most cases but a sight of the original might   
   >sometimes reveal detail not captured by the microfilm.   
   >   
   Many of those have been dealt with by being re-filmed (or scanned?) in   
   colour, IME usually the 1841 census.   
      
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