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BMD Registers?
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Janice | Report | 27 Aug 2010 16:56 |
You can still 'trawl' the books from the comfort of your home! |
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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it | Report | 27 Aug 2010 16:47 |
if your mums siblings were born after 1911 then you can search on both FreeBMD and Ancestry using just the surnames, if you locate your mum then you can establish the area |
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Potty | Report | 27 Aug 2010 16:43 |
Karen |
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KarenInScotland | Report | 27 Aug 2010 16:35 |
Thank you everyone. How disappointing though! |
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mgnv | Report | 27 Aug 2010 15:30 |
Karen - I, too, went to Somerset House (in the 1960s), but what you could see there wasn't the registers but the GRO index. There was one vol per quarter (each for Bs, Ms & Ds). They clearly weren't the registers themselves as we know these ran to a couple of dozen volumes per quarter. There are several copies of these indices scattered around - one copy is viewable online at FreeBMD - use the view images link on their homepage - it's a rather klunky interface though. There are only 2-3 copies of the actual registers - one is with the GRO in Southport, the original B-, D- and sometimes M-register is with the local rego office, but some parts of original M-regos are with the church, or if they're non-current, deposited in some archive - usually the county records office. In these church cases, the local M-rego is a copy of these parts. |
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InspectorGreenPen | Report | 27 Aug 2010 14:19 |
Records of births, marriages and deaths in England and Wales are kept in various places, but not usually available to view at The National Archives. |
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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it | Report | 27 Aug 2010 14:17 |
They are at Kew but not available to look at, they intend to microfiche them at some time. |
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lesleymargaret | Report | 27 Aug 2010 14:16 |
Hi Karen, |
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KarenInScotland | Report | 27 Aug 2010 13:41 |
Years ago I went to Somerset House and was able to look through the registers of BMD, these were orginal books one for each quarter. Are these now at Kew and if so can we still look at them? |