FFHS-NEWS GRO INDEX UPDATE

[News from the Federation of Family History Societies]

GRO INDEX UPDATE

On 28 January we announced that following the closure of the Family Records
Centre GRO indexes for all registration events would be made available on
microfiche at Greater Manchester County Record Office, Birmingham Central
Library, Bridgend Reference and Information Library and Plymouth Central
Library, as well as The National Archives.  We have just heard that City of
Westminster Archives Centre has been added to this list.

The information available at each of these centres will include births,
deaths and marriages from 1837 to 2006, adoptions from 1927 to 2007, civil
partnerships from 2005 to 2007, overseas registrations from 1761 to 2006 and
the provisional indexes for births and deaths for 2007. During the course of
2008 and 2009 each of these sites will receive updates and replacements.

The plans to have a full set with the up-to-date  & supplementary indexes at
the Society of Genealogists fell through.  However, they are still going
ahead with plans to offer free access to GRO indexes – on fiche up to 1926
and online images from 3 providers (Findmypast, Ancestry and Family
Relatives) up to 2006.  Watch their website (www.sog.org.uk) for more news
on this.


Maggie Loughran
Joint Administrator, Federation of Family History Societies
admin at ffhs.org.uk 
www.ffhs.org.uk