Birth & Death Certificates by PDF from GRO

[Andrew Tarr]

Irish records of certs are available online for free 1864 onwards to certain dates in 20th c... not all scanned but many and you get to see the whole page including other entries.  Some compensation for paucity of Irish census records.

My grandfather had Irish ancestry pre-1870, and I soon ran out of ideas on F-H websites.  I was losing hope of tracing his grandparents until I googled for the full name of one of them, and hit a graveyard website with full colour photos.  Their transcription had several inaccuracies, but as there were several names the identity was certain, and I could check against images of the register.  Job done - now I need to go back one more generation ...

[annieoburns]

My mistake, I did not realise marriage certs were excluded from the new trial.  I ordered up some death certs and all straightforward. 

[Deirdre784]

I had a couple of marriage pdfs (late 1860s) from the first trial ....

[Jon_ni]

A few people have posted along these lines

Also wouldn't just allowing users to download whole pages (at least within the current date limits to comply with the data protection act) be much more efficient and profitable as it would require no or little further effort on the part of GRO employees?

as per Scotland & Ireland (Republic of). Note: GRONI or Northern Ireland only supplies digital images of the individual entry just like England & Wales.

I agree but am guessing the problem is the law as per the Statutory Instrument Guy posted a link to which states "The Registrar General may, on request, search the Registrar General’s certified copies of
entries  in  the  birth/death  register  and  provide  a  record of  the  information  contained  in  a  birth/death entry in those copies, in portable document format.

If they supplied the entire page they would be including details of people other than the ones requested/ordered by us. Supplying the whole page would be easier and cheaper as currently the column descripters on the page have to be spliced to the individual row entry for the pdf to eliminate the other persons or 9 rows of entries.

More careful wording of the law or SI when it was passed might have allowed the entire page, it would be interesting to see how Scotland worded it.

[panda40]

Just logged in on the off chance to see how far my order is processing. Due date 18/10 but they are ready to view. Have downloaded and saved. Still no emails so I would advise you all to log in and check you might be lucky.
Regards panda

[Deirdre784]

Yay, mine are there too, thanks Panda. I did look for progress yesterday. No emails yet.

[panda40]

It’s like Christmas come early. Something only a genealogist would appreciate.

Panda

[Deirdre784]

And a mystery deepens from what I expected to be a standard death cert of a 7 year old 🤔

[lisalisa]

Yes, my order (a death cert) is there too, ordered on Thursday afternoon, though no email.
Of course it does raise more questions, than it answers . . . 

Lisa