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Jane Masri
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Passing on some good news
« on: Saturday 25 February 06 18:05 UTC (UK) »

Here is the latest news from Geoff Riggs of the Federation of Family History
Societies.
The good news is towards the end of the announcement.

After the draft Regulatory Reform Order on the Modernisation of Civil
Registration was withdrawn, following lack of support from the Parliamentary
Select
Committees, the General Register Office has been progressing the Modernisation
of
Civil Registration in two ways...................

...................The Project includes production of new indexes of the data
keyed
from the
copy certificates. What you may not be aware of is that the FFHS have been
liaising with the GRO through regular meetings at a senior level, to try to
ensure that family historians gain the maximum possible benefit from the
Project. We are now able to announce that the main improvement we have been
pressing for from the outset has at last been agreed.

Once the new computerised Civil Registration indexes are available, all
records in the indexes from the September quarter of 1837 onwards (the start
of Civil Registration in England and Wales) will include:
(a) age at death for deaths (currently included only from the January
quarter of 1866);
(b) mother's maiden name for births (currently included only from September
quarter of 1911);
(c) surname of the other party for marriages (currently included only from
the January quarter of 1912).

We regard this as a breakthrough which should prove of immense benefit to
research in the future.


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Re: Passing on some good news
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 25 February 06 18:10 UTC (UK) »

Excellent news, although it's a big job, some have already been started locally, not sure when they are going to be ready though.

Mary


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Re: Passing on some good news
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 25 February 06 20:24 UTC (UK) »

Has freeBMD been inputting all this extra info already?
Coz if not then they are gonna have to redo everything.

Although I do agree that it is excellent news.


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annaandchester
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Re: Passing on some good news
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 25 February 06 21:39 UTC (UK) »

I cant wait!!!


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Re: Passing on some good news
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 25 February 06 22:04 UTC (UK) »

This is great news! Infact, it's more than that - it really is a breakthrough.

I'd always assumed that this info wasn't there because...it wasn't there, if you know what I mean!

Why hasn't it been made available before? How long will it take to make it available now?

I'm already thinking of a few deaths I haven't been able to find, a marriage that I wasn't sure of, and just think of all the siblings you'll be able to find armed with the mother's maiden name........ Shocked

Jill


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Re: Passing on some good news
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 25 February 06 22:06 UTC (UK) »

When you stop and think about it - how many brick walls will come tumbling!


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carol80
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Re: Passing on some good news
« Reply #6 on: Saturday 25 February 06 22:42 UTC (UK) »

Great News. I can see my brickwalls starting to wobble.


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Re: Passing on some good news
« Reply #7 on: Saturday 25 February 06 22:45 UTC (UK) »

Great news. Especially about age at death, I have already come a cropper with that one a couple of times!

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Re: Passing on some good news
« Reply #8 on: Saturday 25 February 06 23:47 UTC (UK) »

Quote from: jillruss on Saturday 25 February 06 22:04 UTC (UK)

I'd always assumed that this info wasn't there because...it wasn't there, if you know what I mean!

Why hasn't it been made available before? How long will it take to make it available now?

It's always been on the certificates - but not on the indexes. I assume this reindexing will take some considerable time ( but it will be wonderful when complete.) Rather a shame they don't include the complete parent names.

I wonder about the registration folks of 1837 - Did they really think it unnecessary to index a marriage by having BOTH of the parties on the same index entry. Perhaps they thought it was possible to marry yourself. Then again, they thought large late fines would force folks to register on time, rather than the actual result of not registering at all.

Many thanks for the news Jane - I will wait impatiently to find those children missing on the census

Trish


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MarieC
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Re: Passing on some good news
« Reply #9 on: Sunday 26 February 06 07:25 UTC (UK) »

This is excellent news!!! It will make it SOOO much easier to search for the right ancestor - I have several "wrong" certificates that I had to take a guess at!!

Now I will wait most impatiently for this to happen!!! Grin

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jillruss
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Gt Gt Grandfather Shepherd from Aberdeen 1827-1910

Re: Passing on some good news
« Reply #10 on: Sunday 26 February 06 11:31 UTC (UK) »

Of course the information has always been there! Forgive me, it WAS Saturday night and I think I must have been slightly drunk in charge of a computer!

I feel for those poor people ( volunteers?) who will be travelling through every single certificate to extract the info. I shall also be waiting impatiently but I wonder if they need any helpers to make the wait a bit shorter?

Jill


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trish251
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Re: Passing on some good news
« Reply #11 on: Sunday 26 February 06 12:24 UTC (UK) »

Hi Jill

I doubt they are volunteers & was there some talk that it was going to be done outside of GB? I really don't know, but think that in the long run we will probably be the ones to pay Sad

- but better than not having the information

Trish


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