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GRO Index
« on: Friday 17 August 07 22:21 BST (UK) »
Hi,

Does anyone know why a few GRO reference numbers have have a small a added to the page number ???

V26a...345a

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GLAMORGAN: Evans. Davies. Eddy. Bradnum.
GLAM to USA:Walter H Davies 1886.Thomas J 1852
PEMBROKE: Bradnum.Summers
CARMARTHENSHIRE:Davies. Jones
NORFOLK/SUFFOLK: Bradnum.Cork.Helsdon 3 in Australia, Whiskins. Fairhead.Catchpole.
DEVON:Mallett. Acford, Kidston.Short.Lover.Edwards,Telford.Sparrow
SOMERSET: Masey
CORNWALL:Eddy.Thomas Maddern.Harvey. Noy.Reynolds,Batten,Curtis.
Cornwall to USA: Thomas, Semmens. Oats
Warwickshire: Mountney

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Re: GRO Index
« Reply #1 on: Monday 03 September 07 12:22 BST (UK) »
I believe that this occurs when there is an annotation or correction (often minor) to the original record or the index.

There used to be staff at FRC and at its predecessor St Catherine's House who went round "interlineating" the books -- adding by hand a note at the bottom of the page referring to an added or corrected entry. Assuming that this has been happening for decades, some of the earlier interlineations will have made it into the indexes as they are re-done (e.g. when some of the original handwritten registers were typeset). With computerisation of records from the mid-1980s, amendments make it more swiftly into the register or index.

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Re: GRO Index
« Reply #2 on: Monday 03 September 07 15:00 BST (UK) »
Hello GreySquirrel,

Thank you for explaining what the (a) means on a GRO Ref:)

It is one of those things that has always puzzled me, and I couldn't find any information about it.

Regards Ambers
GLAMORGAN: Evans. Davies. Eddy. Bradnum.
GLAM to USA:Walter H Davies 1886.Thomas J 1852
PEMBROKE: Bradnum.Summers
CARMARTHENSHIRE:Davies. Jones
NORFOLK/SUFFOLK: Bradnum.Cork.Helsdon 3 in Australia, Whiskins. Fairhead.Catchpole.
DEVON:Mallett. Acford, Kidston.Short.Lover.Edwards,Telford.Sparrow
SOMERSET: Masey
CORNWALL:Eddy.Thomas Maddern.Harvey. Noy.Reynolds,Batten,Curtis.
Cornwall to USA: Thomas, Semmens. Oats
Warwickshire: Mountney