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    Dec 05, 2023 3 minutes

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    SCOTLAND'S 1939 REGISTER

    I agree wholeheartedly with the comments in Andrew Tebbutt’s letter (September) about using the 1939 Register for Scotland, and am very disappointed at the unhelpful response that ScotlandsPeople () gave to your editorial query. I’ve no idea what the National Records of Scotland think they’re playing at. Their interpretation of data protection is way over the top, and the whole system seems to be engineered with the idea of deterring

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