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Valda
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ENGLISH CERTIFICATES – HELPFUL INFORMATION
PART 1
BACKGROUND
Civil registration began in England and Wales on 1st July 1837
Before the start of civil registration entries for baptisms, marriages and burials can be found in parish registers.
In 1927 civil registration began for adoptions and stillbirths.
The GENERAL REGISTRY OFFICE gives further information on these indexes.
STILLBIRTHS: http://tinyurl.com/ckbj5e
ADOPTIONS: http://tinyurl.com/lhzf5v
FEDERATION OF FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETIES’ RESEARCH TIPS FOR RESEARCHING ADOPTED PERSONS IN ENGLAND AND WALES: http://tinyurl.com/nu5wxy
Barbara Dixon’s REGISTRATION WEBPAGE website is very informative about the sort of information that can be found in English BMD certificates: http://tinyurl.com/mwel4e
WHERE TO ORDER CERTIFICATES FROM
You can order BMD certificates directly from two sources
The GENERAL REGISTRY OFFICE (GRO): http://tinyurl.com/5wn3h
LOCAL REGISTRY OFFICES
Over the years with the changes in population movement in this country, registration districts have changed names and boundaries so if you are ordering a certificate from a local registry office you will need to check which office it is.
GENUKI - REGISTRATION DISTRICTS IN ENGLAND AND WALES (1837-1974): http://tinyurl.com/m767t4 and http://tinyurl.com/kj9obo
LOCAL REGISTER OFFICES IN ENGLAND AND WALES addresses, phone numbers and emails: http://tinyurl.com/mylst6
Where a marriage took place in a church and the church has deposited its register you can find these registers at the local county record office. When a marriage took place in a church a copy of the church entry was made and deposited with the local registrar. He then made a copy of that certificate and sent it to the GRO with the copies of the certificates made for births and deaths that were registered at the local registry office.
Some local registrars and local family history societies have indexed the BMDs they hold. You can find them through this website UKBMD: http://tinyurl.com/me6cmv
THE GRO INDEX
The GRO indexed all the certificates which arrived from the local registry offices into large yearly quarterly ledgers.
MAR (January, February, March)
JUN (April, May, June)
SEPT (July, August, September)
DEC (October, November, December)
To index all the BMDs in England and Wales from 1837 onwards was a massive clerical undertaking all done by hand. Inevitably errors crept into the system. There were no checks when the ledgers were first handwritten, or when as some of them began to fall apart over the years when typed copies were made and the old ledgers thrown away.
Research has been done on the completeness of the GRO indexes for marriage records 1837-1899 – A COMEDY OF ERRORS: http://tinyurl.com/l8288s
The GRO index gives the year and quarter as well as the registration district the event occurred in, not to be confused with church parishes, since all registration districts covered wider areas which contained many churches and places - this webpage gives you the Anglican churches (only) found in 36 LONDON REGISTRATION DISTRICTS, dates and where the parish records are held: http://tinyurl.com/mgqljj
THE GRO index has a volume number and page number which cross-references to the GRO volumes the certificates are held in. Several certificates are held on each page.
For births the mother’s maiden name (not necessarily the name she married in) appears in the index beginning in the September quarter of 1911.
For marriages the spouses surname appears in the indexes from the March quarter of 1912.
For deaths the age at death was added into the indexes from the June quarter of 1866 and the date of birth from 1969.
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