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UK plan to digitise wills and destroy paper originals "insane" say experts
(www.theguardian.com)
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They aren't necessary, that's the point.
They want to preserve them as historical documents and the government is trying to cut storage costs.
Oh
Well in that case I'm a lot more meh about this. Thanks!
Yeah I'm not a historian so I'm not sure the value of keeping the originals.