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Offline Rebecca Totten

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Online Birmingham Parish Registers? Instead Of GRO
« on: Wednesday 04 October 17 14:31 BST (UK) »
Is there anywhere i can search the Birmingham Parish Register Births for free online? I can not go any further back using the GRO and am not sure where to look now? Why does the GRO not go further back than 1837?
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Re: Online Birmingham Parish Registers? Instead Of GRO
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 04 October 17 14:33 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Rebecca Totten on Wednesday 04 October 17 14:31 BST (UK)
Why does the GRO not go further back than 1837?

Because registration of births, marriages and deaths only started in 1837.
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Re: Online Birmingham Parish Registers? Instead Of GRO
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 04 October 17 15:09 BST (UK) »
Ancestry have on-line records for Birmingham.  If you don't have a subscription, then, if you live in England, you could see whether your library has access.  Very many libraries now have access to Ancestry and/or FindMyPast.

Transcriptions and NBI are merely finding aids.  They are NOT a substitute for original record entries.
Remember - "They'll be found when they want to be found" !!!
If you don't ask the question, you won't get an answer.
He/she who never made a mistake, never made anything.
Archbell - anywhere, any date
Kendall - WRY
Milner - WRY
Appleyard - WRY

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Re: Online Birmingham Parish Registers? Instead Of GRO
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 04 October 17 15:24 BST (UK) »
Have you tried  Familysearch?  It's a Mormon website and free to search.
They have quite a lot of Birmingham records but not the original scans.
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