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Registration Online - RIP handwritten registers. A

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Jack

Jack Report 13 Mar 2007 14:31

Some of the out-stations in my district already used laptops but the birth and death office in the hospital is network linked by PC. Signatures are still real and signed in ink - no fingerprints or iris scans yet! Jack

An Olde Crone

An Olde Crone Report 13 Mar 2007 14:27

Jack Ooooh - will the visiting Registrar who goes to Maternity units have to do it on a laptop? OC

Jack

Jack Report 13 Mar 2007 14:10

No, the certs have been computer generated for some time but the legal document was the handwritten record by the registrar in special ink in the Big Book (black for deaths and red for births). This is the bit that has now gone. The entry is now a computer printed sheet stored in a ring binder (300 entries per folder as before). OC - probably the same as when doing a CP notice (which has been done online since its inception in Dec 2005).....just hope the informant is patient and if all else fails, go to manual. That's progress!!! LOL Jack

Honey

Honey Report 13 Mar 2007 13:22

Oh, gotcha! Just relying on technology then!! Hmmm. At least future researchers will be able to read names and not spend hours decifering someones handwriting (although that IS part of the fun!)

Honey

Honey Report 13 Mar 2007 13:15

I guess it is easier these days for most people to access a PC than it is to get to the RO, so maybe they will be done quicker. The occasion of registering a childs birth I would imagine is a nice thing to do and would not be the same on line??

An Olde Crone

An Olde Crone Report 13 Mar 2007 13:08

Honey You still have to go to the Register Office to do the deed. Jack means you will now get a computer-generated cert instead of a handwritten one. *Wonders what happens if the computer crashes when you are in the middle of registering something* OC

Jack

Jack Report 13 Mar 2007 12:44

My local district started using the new RON (registration online) system for births and deaths as of today, so the handwritten ones have now been closed. Has anyone already registered these two events this way and what's your opinion on the change whether you have or not?