FFHS-NEWS NEWS FROM THE FFHS CONCERNING CHANGES TO GRO WEBSITE

[News from the Federation of Family History Societies]

The following notice has been received today from Melanie Lee GRO Communications 
  
Important Information on changes to the General Register Office website 
   
>From the 1 April 2009, General Register Office (GRO) information for the public will move from our current website (www.gro.gov.uk) to join the website Directgov. It is intended that a full launch, supported by a Press Release, will take place on 7 April 2009. 
  
Directgov is a cross-government supersite, the aim of which is to host information on all public services in one place. 
  
The new website address for GRO is www.direct.gov.uk/gro. This will take users to an area entitled “Registering Life Events”. As well as providing easy links to the GRO online certificate ordering service, it will contain information on the registration of birth, adoption, stillbirth, marriage, civil partnership and death as well as guidance on family history and the use of the General Register Office birth, death and marriage indexes. 
  
The current GRO web address (www.gro.gov.uk) will remain active and will host a “homepage” that will guide visitors to GRO information via links. 
  
I would be grateful if you would make the necessary arrangements to amend any reference you may have to the current GRO website address on your website or on printed literature to show the new web address of www.direct.gov.uk/gro.  Since the web address www.gro.go.uk will remain active, changes to your printed material can await the next print run. 
  
The web address for the GRO online ordering service remains the same and can be found at http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates . This page can also be easily accessed via www.direct.gov.uk/gro. 
  
If you have any queries regarding this initiative please contact the GRO communications team at gro.communications at ips.gsi.gov.uk. 
  


Philippa McCray 
Administrator (Acting) 
Federation of Family History Societies 
PO Box 8857 
Lutterworth 
LE17 9BJ 

Email: admin at ffhs.org.uk 
Tel: 01455 203133 
www.ffhs.org.uk 
 
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