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.

Maggie Loughran
Joint Administrator, Federation of Family History Societies