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Beginners => Family History Beginners Board => Topic started by: reflector on Sunday 20 May 18 15:08 BST (UK)
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Hi, does anybody know if you can still look at the original books that we had to use before they were digitised if so where,
Thankyou
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Which Registration Books? Do you mean the Civil Registration of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, or Parish Registers, and which country?
Stan
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Each country has its own records office which hold the records as well as fiche and film that you can visit and research for that county and the National Archives at Kew holds records for England/Wales, PRONI in Belfast and the National Archives of Scotland are based in Edinburgh.
There are other places it really depends on what records you wish to view
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If you mean the GRO Index volumes that were at The Family Record Centre, then the answer isNo,
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Hi, does anybody know if you can still look at the original books that we had to use before they were digitised if so where,
Thankyou
Original parish registers are mostly held in County Record Offices. Once they have been digitised, the images are sufficient for our research. Given the age and fragility of many records, archivists are often reluctant to let the public handle the originals.
Philip
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Hi Thankyou for all your replies but we have been unable to find my grandfather and his brothers birth l dont think they were mistranscribed as they were born 2 years apart the only thing we can think of is that the woman who there father married 2 years later was not there mother and we thought we could look at the books, l cant remember what they were called l only used them once a good few years ago at l think it was called Middleton House in Islington. I have found records nearly 2oo years ago in Italy and very frustrated l cant find their births in UK in 1876.
once again thank you
sandra
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The civil record of birth you can look at the indexes, try freebmd and once you have found it, then using that index apply and pay for a birth cert from the GRO, you can't search birth certificates.... you of course can search parish records for a baptism
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Give us the names and (alleged Dates) and RootsChatters will have a go for you ;D
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l cant remember what they were called l only used them once a good few years ago at l think it was called Middleton House in Islington. I have found records nearly 2oo years ago in Italy and very frustrated l cant find their births in UK in 1876.
It is possible that if they were born in the 1870's that the births were not registered. The birth registration system was tightened up at the end of that decade.
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It looks as though we may have already looked for them :)
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=609822.msg6348171#msg6348171
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It looks as though we may have already looked for them :)
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=609822.msg6348171#msg6348171
Were they found??
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It looks as though we may have already looked for them :)
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=609822.msg6348171#msg6348171
....and topics were merged, so is this for the same person already asked prior in two separate topics?
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Yes l have asked for help before to find their births but under the names we have of their father and his wife, this is the reason l would like to look again at the books to see if their name is there under another mothers name my grandfather's name was Francis so not very common so it was a long shot but may be its not to be. births were 1876 and 1878 so think they were registered by then.
Thank you all for your responses.
Sandra