GRO digital images

[Ray T]

Thanks! Good job it’s pension day tomorrow.

[jc26red]

Ooohhh!  Just the years I have been waiting for.

Thank you Anthony

[AllanUK]

Ooohhh!  Just the years I have been waiting for.

Thank you Anthony

Seconded!!

[tillypeg]

Aarrgghh!!  I ordered a death cert for 1949 just last night as a PDF and so paid £7....   whatever..... that's good news, thanks AntonyMMM.

[coombs]

Excellent news they have extended deaths to as recent as 1957, as 1957 was when a great, great grandmother died.

[melba_schmelba]

The digital download option for death registrations has now been extended up to 1957 ....

Good News

Thanks, just discovered this .

[candleflame]

I made my first foray into the £2.50’s tonight. Got two death cert images that are excellent and worth the £2.50 each.  The third I wasn’t able to get. It offered all the choices of images including digital in the little blue rectangle for it, but then when it scrolled down , it said that digital wasn’t available for that image. As it was from 1910, I’m guessing it’s maybe been one of those where others have ordered and it’s been found to be not lined up properly so they’ve withdrawn it, but not to the extent that the blue digital box has been removed. Perhaps they’ll adjust that page in the future.
A bit disappointing , but I’ve waited for ages as I couldn’t justify the pdf cost. It’ll be a question of whether my curiosity of cause of death will override the cost.

[Andrew Tarr]

I have only recently taken advantage of the £2.50 Jpeg images on GRO, having lashed out about £25 so far  .  However I cannot get one for William Tarr d.1941, apparently because his record is annotated 'Occasional Copy A' - although the PDF is available at 3 times the cost  .  What might be the reason for this difference ?

LATER  -  since posting this, I have hit two more death records which are unavailable as Jpeg but without annotations, so presumably the system checks whether the requested page has been 'scanned' before asking for your money ....

[AllanUK]

Occasional copies are submitted by the Superintendent Registrar when a correction is made to a register entry in their custody, nothing to do with illegitimacy. You would need to get a copy of the entry to see what the correction was.