GRO indexes on gro.gov.uk !

[Andrew Tarr]

... it also put paid to my suspicions that an ancestor of my husband's was not a granddaughter but a daughter  !

Does it really do that?  The original record only shows what a clerk was told to write ...

[coombs]

I was thinking of buying the birth cert of Ellen Stock in 1854 in Rochford but am happy to wait for the £6 PDF certs to be released.

I have been able to get the maiden name of a wife of an ancestor sibling through the mmn at her kids births 1848-1866 but still no record of a marriage. At least I have his wife's mmn.

[jc26red]

I guess it is to do with the trial of uncertificated pdf copies for £6 which starts tomorrow.

Oh I wish we had a like button. I didn't realise the pdfs were going to materialise that soon

Santa's Christmas list is going to be overshadowed lol!

[Deirdre784]

I have a list ready 😀

[jan57]

... it also put paid to my suspicions that an ancestor of my husband's was not a granddaughter but a daughter  !

Does it really do that?  The original record only shows what a clerk was told to write ...

 No it doesn't  show that ,   what  I meant was that the mothers  maiden name  was   the same as the  other  childrens  from the family ,   originally  I thought   that  the  child  was  from an  older  daughter        but turns out    Mama was almost  47  years  old when  she  gave birth   in  1867     ( her  first   born was  in 1839 )

[clairec666]

I have two on my wanted list - they are siblings of my ancestors, and may help shed a little light on their parents.

One of them is a bit of a mystery - Fanny Elizabeth Frazer, born 1837 Evesham, baptised several years later along with her elder siblings. Parents are William and Mary - William was probably dead by 1841 and Mary's maiden name was probably Nind. Yet on the GRO website the mother's maiden name is blank. I'm hoping this is an error, and her birth certificate will confirm Mary's maiden name, and tell me whether William was still alive at this point.

[bradelkington]

Does any body know if you get the pdf file the same day as purchased or do you have to wait a week or so like you normally would?
Also when does it go live, would it be after midnight tonight or later in the morning for such as 9am or later

[Guy Etchells]

Does any body know if you get the pdf file the same day as purchased or do you have to wait a week or so like you normally would?
Also when does it go live, would it be after midnight tonight or later in the morning for such as 9am or later

I am hoping it is instantaneously like census images.

I am telling everyone it will be 9 o'clock but between you and me I think it will be midnight as the census was.

Cheers
Guy

[Deirdre784]

I am telling everyone it will be 9 o'clock but between you and me I think it will be midnight as the census was.

That's good as I'll be in work by 8 so can have a quick look before I go And hope they haven't all gone by lunchtime