GRO digital images £2.50

[AntonyMMM]

Do you know if they are going to update the online Deaths index beyond 2021?

I don't know - there is no legal reason why they can't.

The description of the index in the FAQs says "Death records from 1837 to 1957, and 1984 up to two years ago in England and Wales" so if that stays the same I would expect 2022 entries to be added shortly after the end of 2024.

I think the same will apply to the birth index coverage.

[Sloe Gin]

Thank you, Antony, I missed that.

[Romilly]

I can see it in the Start Menu.

Only applies to Birth and Death PDF’s though, - annoying that it isn’t Marriages too!

Romilly.

[Mildred298]

I've also used the digital image option for those records you're not too sure about. As a cheaper option for a gamble. I need to be pretty certain before splashing 7 or 11 squid. If I'm certain I now go for the hard copy as it comes as a decent paper copy for my hard archive rather than the pdf.
Mildred

[coombs]

I have so stocked up on birth certs for ancestors siblings now, and death certs for those who died in infancy, as well as adulthood. The new feature is great. No longer having to wait up to 3 weeks like before especially when WDYTYA was on and it made demand for BMD cert orders from GRO go through the roof.

[BarbW]

I have so stocked up on birth certs for ancestors siblings now, and death certs for those who died in infancy, as well as adulthood. The new feature is great. No longer having to wait up to 3 weeks like before especially when WDYTYA was on and it made demand for BMD cert orders from GRO go through the roof.

That's what I've been doing, buying the death certificates for those who died young.  Of course we had the burial registers for dates in some cases but it's interesting to see little ones who died of childhood diseases which have now almost been eradicated in this country at least and young adults  dying of illnesses that would probably be cured these days.

[Mildred298]

I've just ordered a digital image and the option comes up when you chose whether you'd like a pdf, hard copy or digital image.
The full certificates do give you an insight into life in earlier times, the informant, place and illness. Very interesting and often very sad. I try to write a biography of all my direct line ancestors in a bid to understand and record their lives.
Mildred.

[BarbW]

I've just ordered a digital image and the option comes up when you chose whether you'd like a pdf, hard copy or digital image.
The full certificates do give you an insight into life in earlier times, the informant, place and illness. Very interesting and often very sad. I try to write a biography of all my direct line ancestors in a bid to understand and record their lives.
Mildred.

I got that information this week from the digital images of 3 siblings.  The date of death and address where they died, the illness that caused the death and the informant, the mother who was present at the death of her children in 2 cases, the other being a teenager, the informant was his sister as his mother was already dead by then herself at 33 years of age.

 I don't see what else you'd get from a full certificate unless I'm missing something.

[AntonyMMM]

I don't see what else you'd get from a full certificate unless I'm missing something.

Apart from the missing headings, the only difference is that digital images don't (usually) show any marginal notes that may be on the entry - pdf and paper copies do. Otherwise they are identical.