Genealogy Forum UK

Hi,

As many of you may know there was an agreement between FamilySearch and DGA to digitize, index and public italian civil-status documents. A web-portal called Antenati has been created for this and FamilySearch started to publish some registers.

For some reasons DGA forced FamilySearch to black out many collections (when you try to see them there is an "image not available" post). You can identify these collection by the "state archive" specification. DGA was questioned about this decision but we recieved only elusive answers.

Some genealogy enthusiasts have created a petition to ask DGA to remove blackout imposition to FS, at least until registers are fully uploaded on the web-portal Antenati. (http://www.antenati.san.beniculturali.it/)

You can read this petition and sign it if you agree (it's written in italian but there are translation's links attached for english, french, german, spanish and portuguese)to this link:

http://www.petizioni24.com/visibilita_d ... e_italiano


If my english is not correct or you have doubt or question, please ask!
Thank you,
Nicola

Thank you to those who signed it.

The petition has been sent to DGA and now we wait for an official answer. I will let you know when we'll recieve it.
The petition is still open so please continue to sign and share (we have reached 484 signs by now).

Thank you again,
Nicola