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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>...or ensure that what inscriptions are there today are recorded for future generations...</p>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just came across this on the BBC website <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6722481.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6722481.stm</a></p>
<p>Briefly, it says - &quot;Graves filled at least 100 years ago can be re-used under government plans to ease pressure on cemeteries. <br />
Ministers say all designated burial space in England and Wales will be full in 30 years, unless changes are made. <br />
In a technique called &quot;lift and deepen&quot; old graves will be deepened with room for up to six new coffins to be placed on top of the older remains. <br />
Families could refuse permission for their ancestors' graves to be re-used for &quot;at least another generation&quot;. <br />
But once the deeper graves have been used once there will be no time contraints on when subsequent bodies are buried in them. <br />
It will be left to the local authorities who look after graveyards to contact relatives of those who are buried - a job which may be thwarted by illegible weathered gravestones from more than 100 years ago. <br />
It would also be up to them as to what they did with the old gravestones, a Ministry of Justice spokeswoman said. &quot;</p>
<p>Seems to me that this would be a major problem for genealogists, so we need to keep an eye on it.</p>
<p>Joss</p>
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