From: G6JPG@255soft.uk   
      
   On 2025/7/25 18:0:27, Peter Johnson wrote:   
   > On Thu, 24 Jul 2025 16:11:38 -0000 (UTC), "Geoff"   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> J. P. Gilliver wrote:   
      
   []   
      
   >>> So it's probably OK for 2031. Whether we'll get subsequent ones,   
   >>> we'll just have to hope.   
   >>   
   >> It will all become useless for future genealogical research anyway,   
   >> with the way modern life is lived!!   
      
   If you mean the lack of marriages (not to mention same-sex   
   partnerships*), then it is certainly more challenging! However, still   
   possible. And the census is _more_ important, as it at least shows who   
   were living together (albeit only at 10-year intervals).   
      
   *no disapproval of same-sex partnerships intended! Only that they make   
   biological heredity harder to divine.>   
   > Post circa1950 research is rendered almost impossible by the use of   
   > middle name initials by the GRO.   
   Well, a middle initial is still better than nothing; I take it you mean   
   they switched to recording middle names as initials only rather than in   
   full. But I'd say "rendered almost impossible" isn't really the case,   
   except where a _very_ common name is involved.   
      
   --   
   J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf   
      
   ... unlike other legal systems the common law is permissive. We can do   
   what we like, unless it is specifically prohibited by law. We  are not   
   as rule-bound and codified as other legal systems. - Helena Kennedy QC   
   (Radio Times 14-20 July 2012).   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)