Missing GRO Record

[Tickettyboo]

Many thanks for this.  I will give it a try - perhaps I was just unlucky with the GRO respondent to my email.  There was no suggestion to do this.

To be fair, under any list of search results on the GRO site (even if there are no results) right at the bottom of the page it says

Noticed a problem with a record in the GRO Indexes?
You can report it to GRO and help us improve the quality of information available.

Clicking on "report it to the GRO" takes you to the url I posted.

Boo

[Dundee]

I have looked at the scanned image used by freebmd.org and believe this is transcribed correctly in freebmd.org, but I cannot find it on the GRO website inquiry in order to buy the certificate.

The GRO are using the original documents to create the new indexes, so whether or not FreeBMD has transcribed the old indexes correctly or not is irrelevant as the GRO are not using them.

Other entries from the same sheet, eg WILLIAM HENRY GREENE, Clerkenwell, 1B, 340, do appear on the GRO website.

You need to look at page numbers, I am not sure what you mean by 'sheet'.

The two deaths that are missing from the GRO indexes with that page number are both unnamed males GREENE and WEEKS, probably infants, so perhaps the nature of these two registrations somehow led to an indexing error.

Tickettyboo has described the process for reporting a missing entry.

Debra 

[RW1]

Hi

As I said, I will try the error reporting tool.  I have used this before for incorrect entries, but I've never had one missing altogether before, which is why I probably wasn't in that thought process!

Thank you again for your replies.

[jonwarrn]

The two deaths that are missing from the GRO indexes with that page number are both unnamed males GREENE and WEEKS, probably infants, so perhaps the nature of these two registrations somehow led to an indexing error.

They are not missing.
These are they, both male, but which is which?
Name: —, —       
Age at Death (in years): 0 
GRO Reference: 1861  S Quarter in PANCRAS  Volume 01B  Page 86
   
Name: —, —       
Age at Death (in years): 0 
GRO Reference: 1861  S Quarter in PANCRAS  Volume 01B  Page 86

[jonwarrn]

Maybe the Greene registration is the first one, alphabetically it is!

[rosie99]

Thanks for that, I would not have thought to put dashes in the name boxes.   

Rosie

[RW1]

Thanks for that, I would not have thought to put dashes in the name boxes.   

Rosie

Nor me!  Thanks.

[AntonyMMM]

As you have found, unnamed children are indexed on the GRO on-line index with both a blank surname and forename. Why they don't use the same indexing rule as other entries and show the surname as that of the the father/mother ....I've no idea.

Not very helpful for research ....

The call centre staff are there to take 7 process  orders  - I don't think many of them have much knowledge of registration rules and how their own systems work .... an email through the contact point does sometimes get a more useful response (but not always).

[RW1]

Maybe the Greene registration is the first one, alphabetically it is!

It is!  Just ordered image.  Died 23 August 1861 (same as birth), aged 6 hours, son of Charles Greene, Newspaper Reporter; cause of death: Premature.

Many thanks.