a quick response in order to make what to us is an important point: public
records are public records from the time of creation, not from the time of
selection for preservation
Susan Healy
PRO
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> Subject: Coroners' records
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> We are attempting to draw up a procedure for transferring
> semi-current
> papers from HM Coroner, stored by us as 'Records Management', to an
> archival accession of public records.
>
> The Coroners have no difficulty with the idea that the records can
> and
> must be weeded after 15 years (we receive them at about 5 years old)
> but the complete process has never been formally carried through here
>
> before. Can anyone offer any suggestions or give an example of a
> policy already in place for
> a) weeding
> b) formal change of status: semi-current RM - public records
> for sudden death and inquest papers, and correspondence?
>
> Would be very grateful indeed for ideas!
>
>
> Liz Whittingham
> County Council Records
> Cambridgeshire Archives Service
>
> e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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