Genealogy & Heraldry Bill, 2006 (Section 31)

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Genealogy & Heraldry Bill, 2006 (Section 31)

Legg inn av GSI.Secretary@familyhisto » 26 mai 2006 16:51:33

A Chairde,

Two individuals have asked me to explain what is meant by "a
genealogical potential" in Section 31 of the Genealogy & Heraldry Bill,
2006.

Section 31 - deals with the designation of genealogical records to be
protected by law and the phrase "a genealogical potential" means simply
that records created by the State or State Agencies or other bodies for
whatever purpose may contain information that would also be of interest
to genealogists either now or in the future. Therefore, these records
could be listed as having a genealogical potential and should be
protected and made available for research etc.

The idea of something having a potential requiring protection is well
established in the world of archaeology, for example a greenfield site
earmarked for building development may have an archaeological potential
because of its proximity to an ancient or known archaeological site or
a brownfield site in a city or town may have such because of the
earlier settlement in that area.

FOR THE TEXT OF THE BILL & MEMORANDUM see
http://www.oireachtas.ie/viewdoc.asp?Do ... &&CatID=59

It was considered important to include this provision as records held
by those who compiled them for an entirely different purpose other than
genealogy may be destroyed after their intended purpose has been
fulfilled . Indeed, the compilers may not realise that a genealogist
may find their records of importance to genealogical research or social
history.

Kindest regards

Michael Merrigan
http://www.familyhistory.ie

Hugh Watkins

Re: Genealogy & Heraldry Bill, 2006 (Section 31)

Legg inn av Hugh Watkins » 26 mai 2006 21:15:39

GSI.Secretary@familyhistory.ie wrote:

A Chairde,

Two individuals have asked me to explain what is meant by "a
genealogical potential" in Section 31 of the Genealogy & Heraldry Bill,
2006.

Section 31 - deals with the designation of genealogical records to be
protected by law and the phrase "a genealogical potential" means simply
that records created by the State or State Agencies or other bodies for
whatever purpose may contain information that would also be of interest
to genealogists either now or in the future. Therefore, these records
could be listed as having a genealogical potential and should be
protected and made available for research etc.

The idea of something having a potential requiring protection is well
established in the world of archaeology, for example a greenfield site
earmarked for building development may have an archaeological potential
because of its proximity to an ancient or known archaeological site or
a brownfield site in a city or town may have such because of the
earlier settlement in that area.

FOR THE TEXT OF THE BILL & MEMORANDUM see
http://www.oireachtas.ie/viewdoc.asp?Do ... &&CatID=59

It was considered important to include this provision as records held
by those who compiled them for an entirely different purpose other than
genealogy may be destroyed after their intended purpose has been
fulfilled . Indeed, the compilers may not realise that a genealogist
may find their records of importance to genealogical research or social
history.

recently the Danish archive destroyed the personel records of the Danish

State Railways, in Kew the railway records survive but the UK
National Archives wanted to scrap WW1 medal record cards on the ground
that they have beeen scanned and took up space

After many protests a new home was found with a historical association

SOG london has rescued some teachers registration records cashiered at
Kew as duplicates

This process is called "weeding the archives" (in order to create space
for new deposits)

Sometimes one file in ten is kept as a statistical sample
so seamans records were sent to Greenwich and the majority to a
Canadian University

Hugh W


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Dennis Ahern

trashing scanned originals

Legg inn av Dennis Ahern » 27 mai 2006 04:27:02

In soc.genealogy.ireland Hugh Watkins <hugh.watkins@gmail.com> wrote:

: recently the Danish archive destroyed the personel records of the Danish
: State Railways, in Kew the railway records survive but the UK
: National Archives wanted to scrap WW1 medal record cards on the ground
: that they have beeen scanned and took up space

The U. S. National Archives holds pension records of Civil War veterans
and widows. The only way to locate these files is by the application or
certificate number which was recorded on 3x5 index cards. These cards
were microfilmed and the originals discarded. Unfortunately, the original
file system distiniguished naval veterans index cards by printing them on
blue card stock. When the cards were microfilmed, there was no exposure
adjustment made for the interspersed naval cards, which showed up as
almost black on the microfilm. Anyone researching Civil War pension files
of naval veterans should count themselves extremely lucky if they are able
to accurately discern sufficient detail to correctly identify the file
numbers. Sadly, most naval pension files, though on the shelves of the
National Archives in DC, will never be seen by those who seek them because
there is no way of finding them due to the original cards having been
thrown out after they were microfilmed.

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