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BMD Registers?
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Kay???? | Report | 4 Feb 2012 11:12 |
Oh Joy,if you never took in the delights of Somerset House you missed a real treat,,,it was like a shussssher's gallery and any minute you expected Heap to come looming from somewhere it was so formal. |
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Joy | Report | 4 Feb 2012 09:32 |
I was taken back in time watching Minder and wished I could still go to the Family Records Centre in London - Arthur was tracing his family tree in St Catherine's House :-) |
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Treehunter | Report | 4 Feb 2012 01:29 |
I use to love going to FRC as i was born up the road from it. |
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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it | Report | 3 Feb 2012 23:29 |
The online GRO records are the ones from the BIG books so you can still look at them |
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Kay???? | Report | 3 Feb 2012 18:50 |
Somerset House held the index ledgers that eventually went to Family Records @ St Catherines, at Aldwych ,from there they were transerfed to Family Records in Myddleton St,,,,,,those only ever gave a maiden surname of mother. |
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KarenInScotland | Report | 3 Feb 2012 16:15 |
Having just watched the flm "Organges and Sunshine" it reminded me of this thread. In the film the lead character sits and goes through the books that I was trying to locate - not much help in getting access to them now but it was good to see 'proof' of what I remembered! |
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Joy | Report | 28 Aug 2010 21:53 |
Sadly, the Family Records Centre closed in March 2008. I still miss it very much. We used to really enjoy the journey, train and then bus, searching the film, village by village; then lifting down the heavy books, searching, making a note, in pencil, of course :-), of which quarter and which year had been checked, putting the big book back, getting back ache, then finding an entry and completing the form to order the certificate, and then on occasions reaching the ordering desk only to find had forgotten the volume number and going back again, rushing to get there before closing time! |
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KarenInScotland | Report | 28 Aug 2010 21:06 |
I probably am mis remembering what was in the books, particularly as I was looking mainly at the marriages and only briefly looked my self and sister up in the birth books. |
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MarkMorgan | Report | 28 Aug 2010 14:58 |
From what I understand the records were removed from public access because the GRO were re-indexing them and making a new online access system to search the records and buy certificates. This was project DOVE which failed some time ago. |
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mgnv | Report | 27 Aug 2010 23:40 |
Karen - I think you're misremembering. Post 1911q2, all one gets is the Mum's Maiden Surname. I just checked the index I looked up - I remember it well as although there were only 10 births with my surname that quarter, there was another me - but born in another rego district. I was born out in the tules - less than 1000 births in my district that year. The other me was born in another district & had his mum's MS=Onion, not an easy name to forget - I've often wondered if it was really O'Nion - another name I've not heard of. Anyways, back in the 1940s, there'd been registration for 100+ y, so 400+ quarters, so 10000+ volumes of registers for each of B,M & D. The room just wasn't big enough Aside from the pedestal work table thingies, all else in the room was a guy at a wicket where you handed in your request (+money). |
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was plain ann now annielaurie | Report | 27 Aug 2010 21:47 |
The books don't give mothers first name. They are exactly the same as the online indexes. |
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KarenInScotland | Report | 27 Aug 2010 21:08 |
Hi Gwyn |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 27 Aug 2010 21:03 |
I don't know of full names. |
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KarenInScotland | Report | 27 Aug 2010 20:56 |
More advice please - |
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KarenInScotland | Report | 27 Aug 2010 19:37 |
Sorry for being away. I appreciate your all your help. |
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was plain ann now annielaurie | Report | 27 Aug 2010 17:56 |
Kew has had Microfiche of BMD for years, but I think now they are available online they have removed them from general access although you could probably still ask to view them. Not a lot of point though as all the indexes can be viewed online. |
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Potty | Report | 27 Aug 2010 17:34 |
I think Janice did mean on Ancestry. The images on there are of the books that you used at Somerset House. |
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Janice | Report | 27 Aug 2010 17:34 |
Hi Karen, |
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KarenInScotland | Report | 27 Aug 2010 17:02 |
Janice |
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KarenInScotland | Report | 27 Aug 2010 17:01 |
Thanks Shirley. I have Ancestry but it seems to be sporadic as to whether the mums maiden name is on the record or not. I'll have a look at BMD, thanks. |