Please sign this petition!
The Ministry
of Justice proposes to digitise and then allow the destruction of original
wills after 25 years. We call for the original wills to be preserved in
perpetuity in line with current legislation. Do not agree to legislative
changes that would allow the destruction of these documents.
More details
1. We think
costs of digital preservation and storage could be astronomical.
2. The loss of digital files may be more likely than the loss of physical
documents, for example via file corruption and cyber attacks.
3. Flaws and errors made during the digitisation process may happen. [This is
obvious for all to see in current transcriptions of certificates of births,
marriages and deaths, census records, etc.]
4. The proposed changes to legislation may set a detrimental precedent for the
destruction of other archive collections.
5. Physical documents provide additional information, such as the materiality
of the documents, [revealing notes in margins], etc.
And here:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/654081