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BMD Registers?
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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? |
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lesleymargaret | Report | 27 Aug 2010 14:16 |
Hi Karen, |
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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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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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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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KarenInScotland | Report | 27 Aug 2010 16:35 |
Thank you everyone. How disappointing though! |
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Potty | Report | 27 Aug 2010 16:43 |
Karen |
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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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Janice | Report | 27 Aug 2010 16:56 |
You can still 'trawl' the books from the comfort of your home! |
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KarenInScotland | Report | 27 Aug 2010 17:01 |
Thanks Shirley. I have Ancestry but it seems to be sporadic as to whether the mums maiden name is on the record or not. I'll have a look at BMD, thanks. |
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KarenInScotland | Report | 27 Aug 2010 17:02 |
Janice |
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Janice | Report | 27 Aug 2010 17:34 |
Hi Karen, |
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Potty | Report | 27 Aug 2010 17:34 |
I think Janice did mean on Ancestry. The images on there are of the books that you used at Somerset House. |
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was plain ann now annielaurie | Report | 27 Aug 2010 17:56 |
Kew has had Microfiche of BMD for years, but I think now they are available online they have removed them from general access although you could probably still ask to view them. Not a lot of point though as all the indexes can be viewed online. |
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KarenInScotland | Report | 27 Aug 2010 19:37 |
Sorry for being away. I appreciate your all your help. |
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KarenInScotland | Report | 27 Aug 2010 20:56 |
More advice please - |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 27 Aug 2010 21:03 |
I don't know of full names. |
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KarenInScotland | Report | 27 Aug 2010 21:08 |
Hi Gwyn |
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was plain ann now annielaurie | Report | 27 Aug 2010 21:47 |
The books don't give mothers first name. They are exactly the same as the online indexes. |
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mgnv | Report | 27 Aug 2010 23:40 |
Karen - I think you're misremembering. Post 1911q2, all one gets is the Mum's Maiden Surname. I just checked the index I looked up - I remember it well as although there were only 10 births with my surname that quarter, there was another me - but born in another rego district. I was born out in the tules - less than 1000 births in my district that year. The other me was born in another district & had his mum's MS=Onion, not an easy name to forget - I've often wondered if it was really O'Nion - another name I've not heard of. Anyways, back in the 1940s, there'd been registration for 100+ y, so 400+ quarters, so 10000+ volumes of registers for each of B,M & D. The room just wasn't big enough Aside from the pedestal work table thingies, all else in the room was a guy at a wicket where you handed in your request (+money). |