GRO indexes on gro.gov.uk !

[Millmoor]

Thank you so much for posting! This is such a useful tool and has already produced really useful results, has identified a number of children who died in between censuses and has helped answer a question about my gg grandmother that I had no idea how to solve previously. And its only day one!

William

[relatedtoturnips]

Its certainly a step in the right direction, but I feel the search criteria is a little restrictive. For instance it would be nice to be able to blanket search a maiden name without having to specify a specific year.

Cheers.

[PalmTree1]

Another big thank you for posting this information. It has already confirmed various ideas and the converse so the hunt continues 

Paul

[*Sandra*]

Its certainly a step in the right direction, but I feel the search criteria is a little restrictive. For instance it would be nice to be able to blanket search a maiden name without having to specify a specific year.

Cheers.

Have you tried to do that ? I have done that exact same thing this morning and it worked for me - surname and gender only.

Sandra

[relatedtoturnips]

Found some handy guides to Certs on the GRO. They are direct links to the PDF files.

Birth , Marriage , Death.

http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/images/Birth%20Cert%20PDF.pdf
http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/images/Marriage%20Cert%20PDF.pdf
http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/images/Death%20Cert%20PDF.pdf

Guide to searching GRO

http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/images/Guide%20to%20searching%20the%20online%20historic%20indexes.pdf

List of registration districts

https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/images/GRO%20Registration%20District%20Book.pdf

[relatedtoturnips]

Its certainly a step in the right direction, but I feel the search criteria is a little restrictive. For instance it would be nice to be able to blanket search a maiden name without having to specify a specific year.

Cheers.

Have you tried to do that ? I have done that exact same thing this morning and it worked for me - surname and gender only.

Sandra

Didnt work for me. It said in angry red text "A valid year must be selected"

  Poor Turnip lol.

[carol8353]

You do realise that if we all find missing people and order certs for them ,the GRO will be inundated and the service will slow to a crawl. And when WDYTYA starts again it will get even slower 

[Girl Guide]

Yes it may well do so Carol, but don't you think it will be worth the wait knowing that you are 99.9% sure you are ordering the correct cert?

This new system will save us Rootschatters quite a bit of money by not having paid for a cert that wasn't the right one.

[relatedtoturnips]

I suppose the GRO must of had this data around for a long time? or the have just started to index maiden names? They must of scanned the birth certs, and looked for maiden names.

Turnip.