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Re: GRO indexes on gro.gov.uk !
« Reply #189 on: Monday 07 November 16 12:36 GMT (UK) »
for the initial trial the cost will be £6 - I believe it it will be a .pdf file showing an image of the (copy) register entry that GRO have - being uncertified for family history research isn't really an issue - it just means it won't be on official paper and might not be acceptable for any legal purposes ( inheritance claims, passport applications etc).

At the risk of sounding ungrateful and grouchy, I think that is still too expensive. There are so many certs I would order, not because I need them to confirm anything important, but out of sheer curiosity.  At £6 I will still have to pick and choose carefully.
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« Reply #190 on: Monday 07 November 16 12:55 GMT (UK) »
It's great to see so many RootsChatters benefitting from the new service, but I'm still awaiting my Verification Code  :'(

Has anybody else had problems? I have been registered with GRO for some time and my sign-in was accepted but no Verification Code arrived despite several requests last evening and this morning. I even re-registered with a different email address this morning. They said the Verification Code had been sent each time I tried but no sign of it even in the 'spam' folder.

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Re: GRO indexes on gro.gov.uk !
« Reply #191 on: Monday 07 November 16 13:15 GMT (UK) »
I've had a few instances lately where promised emails didn't arrive?

The time during the summer, I am on very good terms with the technical person involved.
He said there were certification problems with some domain names?
GMX.com, Blueyonder.co.uk and ntlworld.com were the 3 he came up with.

Certainly my email address (on GMX) has caused problems within the last couple of weeks.
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Re: GRO indexes on gro.gov.uk !
« Reply #192 on: Monday 07 November 16 13:17 GMT (UK) »
Sloe
Cost is higher than Scotland, Ireland and Northern Ireland but I guess as the cost to get to 2012 was over £8 million for Birth records 1837 to 1934 & Death records 1837 to 1957 and estimated cost to complete digitisation of remaining records and marriages was £25-30m [from Reply#179's link] so likely it is being passed on. We can only hope some revenue will indeed be set aside for marriages.

Perhaps I previously assummed incorrectly that they would not have manpower for corrections as on re-reading the help info "All error reports will be investigated and where an error is found, we will update the Index to reflect the correct information. Updates to the indexes will be made on a weekly basis."


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Re: GRO indexes on gro.gov.uk !
« Reply #193 on: Monday 07 November 16 13:51 GMT (UK) »
It's great to see so many RootsChatters benefitting from the new service, but I'm still awaiting my Verification Code  :'(

Has anybody else had problems? I have been registered with GRO for some time and my sign-in was accepted but no Verification Code arrived despite several requests last evening and this morning. I even re-registered with a different email address this morning. They said the Verification Code had been sent each time I tried but no sign of it even in the 'spam' folder.

Mike.

I am having the same problem.  I have tried two emails and still nothing.
I'm not young enough to know everything.


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Re: GRO indexes on gro.gov.uk !
« Reply #194 on: Monday 07 November 16 13:57 GMT (UK) »
My 3xgreat gran was born c1851-1853 in Terling. Isabella Stokes. She was one birth which appears not to have been registered. I even looked at all births in the Witham district 1850-1855 on FreeBMD and Ancestry and found no likely or even remotely likely entries. If I type into the new GRO feature with a first name variant and what should be the mmn (Britton) the site goes slow or crashes.

The new GRO feature may be a help if you still live in the smallest hope an ancestor birth was registered but grossly mistranscribed. Maybe I should try the local registrar for the Witham district.
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DORSET Coombs, Munday
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SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
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SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
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ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain

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Re: GRO indexes on gro.gov.uk !
« Reply #195 on: Monday 07 November 16 14:00 GMT (UK) »
I'm having no luck with getting a verification code either - using my old login and also a new registration with a different email address.
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« Reply #196 on: Monday 07 November 16 14:03 GMT (UK) »
Thanks snowyw and Hinso, good to know it's not just me. Guess we'll just have to be patient.

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Re: GRO indexes on gro.gov.uk !
« Reply #197 on: Monday 07 November 16 14:05 GMT (UK) »
I would imagine online organisations that use secondary login or back up questions. ie " Mothers maiden name" will now have to have a rethink on their security questions"  or bring to their attention of  dangers that already exists.  :-\
In my opinion the marriage residence is not always the place of birth. Never forget Workhouse and overseers accounts records of birth