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thanks for bumping up as i mist when it was first posted

just had i little look and it still works
so will have a proper look some time tomorrow as its bed time now

but still can not find nans birth only her sister
never mind

nite nite xx

I like it.

Just spent ten mins trying it out and it looks extremely useful.

Wonder if this is part of the digitisation program that was mothballed a few years back because the money ran out.

Just giving this a nudge, because I was having trouble finding it.

Actually, a death is just shown as the number, there is no qualifying "mnth" or "yr"

.......... not much of a problem if the baby has an unusual name, not so easy if you have rellies like mine where everyone uses the same names over and over again in every generation!


someone on another site posted that GRO is aware of this glitch and is looking at it

Just to add.........

The death option states death in years. Not so.

I have a baby born M Qtr1868 dying S Qtr 1868 5 months old.
showing 5 years.

Order successfully completed. Delivery 17 Nov as it was placed after the cut off hours.

Thanks - I'll have another go later....if there are any left.

Det - several posters on "rootschat" have been successful after initial problems - delivery Nov 16th

Tried to order a DC, but its says its £9.25.

Has anyone successfully bought a cert for £6?

Logged on today to see this - one way to cut down the rush for cheap copies as per lost cousins link given above 6th Nov. at 1006

Essential Maintenance & New functionality available

The website will be unavailable on Wednesday 9th November 2016 between 07:30 and 08:30 for essential maintenance to take place.

We apologise to customers for any inconvenience caused.

etc

oh yes, I had forgotten the middle name in full!

Well, in some cases the middle name, as indicated by an intial, is given in full. Very handy for finding possible deaths elsewhere.

E.G - The index on FreeBMD only gives Florence M. The GRO site says it's Florence Margaret.

BrianW .


you mean you want information BEFORE 1837?

GRO did not exist then, so they don't have any records to digitise!

Try FReeReg2 fro information from Parish Registers. It's a work in progress by volunteers, so you have to keep going back .............

http://freereg2.freereg.org.uk/


If it's after 1915 ....... then all the information that you can see is already on Freebmd. You don't get any more information on the new GRO digitised records than the addition of mmn on births, and of age on deaths

As posted on another thread


According to Lost Cousins newsletter, there will be the option to buy digitalised copies for £6 from 9 Nov. Only a limited number of purchases will be available within the trial period.
.......
The trial will last for only 3 weeks, but may close earlier (only 45,000 PDFs will be made available at this price). My guess is that those 45,000 PDFs will be sold very, very quickly -
Births: 1837 to 1934
Deaths: 1837 to 1957

http://lostcousins.com/newsletters2/specialnov16news.htm#PDFtrial
.......

Shame it only covers 1837 to 1915.

GRO does only have registers post July 1 1837 ................

what has happened is that they have digitised records for Births and Deaths with more information added, especially mmn on births, and have now made those available to search for free.

Then you can order the certificate if you want to know more ............ eg, the address or occupation of father, etc.

They say they are working on Marriages.

Note that not all birth certificates have mmn for some reason, so that can be a difficulty.


The only snag that I have noticed is that they do not seem to have a system to add mnths or yrs to the age of someone who has died, so just the number appears .......

........ bit disconcerting when you have a very distinctive name but the age indicates they were born 8 years before it actually happened. Then you realise it has to be them, and they were 8 months old!

sometimes births, as most of you know, are registered in the fathers name(IF) you know it, but in the case of not married births...if you know the childs first name...search under the maiden name for any births

Wow! Thank you for that Elizabeth

That is great news. Thank you.

http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/default.asp

PatinCyprus has just posted on a separate thread this link to the new GRO guidance and information