General Register Office, England and Wales, Birth Index

• Title	General Register Office, England and Wales, Birth Index
  Short Title	General Register Office, England and Wales, Birth Index
  Repository	Ancestry.com
  Source ID	S3027
  Text	At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.
  Linked to	Living Living Living Living Living Living Living Living ? BAKER Living ? BARRACLOUGH Living ? BATLER ? BAUM Ada S. BAYNE Living Living ? BLACKETT ? BLACKETT Elizabeth Jane BRADY Bridget BREENE Living Living Living ? BURNELL Living Living Living ? CALVERT ? CAMERON Living Living Lillian M. CANNON ? CASTELOW Ann Askew CATON Living Living ? CLAYTON Living Living Living Mary Jane COPPELL Living Living Living Living Living ? CULBERT Living ? CULBERT Living [More individuals] Family: Living / Living Family: ? CULBERT / ? MEWSE Family: William CULBERT / ? NELSON Family: William Henry CULBERT / Honora MCGRATH Family: ? CULBERT / ? MANION Family: ? CULBERT / ? MUSE Family: ? CULBERT / ? Family: ? CULBERT / ? GRAVES Family: ? CULBERT / ? LONG Family: ? CULBERT / Alice DICK Family: ? CULBERT / ? BATLER Family: ? CULBERT / ? O'GARA Family: James CULBERT / ? LINSLEY Family: ? CULBERT / Lily THOMAS Family: ? CULBERT / ? BLACKETT Family: ? CULBERT / ? JORDAN Family: ? CULBERT / ? PETERSON Family: Edward CULBERT / ? BAKER

  
  

• Notes

  "On 1 July 1837 a civil registration system for births, marriages and deaths was introduced in England and Wales.  Registration was undertaken by civil registrars who reported to the Registrar General at the General Register Office (GRO) in London, now part of the Office for National Statistics (ONS).  Copies of anyone's birth, marriage or death certificates can be obtained by the public.  They are vital to family historians because of the genealogical information that they include." (ref. Mark D. Herber, Ancestral Trails, Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1998) Since the original birth, marriage and death registers are not open to the public, getting access to the information on one of these certificates is done by first searching the national birth, marriage and death indexes, that have been created by the GRO for this purpose.  The indexes for the three events are each divided into quarterly volumes, with the names for each quarter listed alphabetically.  Once an entry in one of the indexes is found, you are then able to use that information to order a copy of a death, marriage, or birth certificate from the GRO/ONS.   The other information that can be obtained from the index includes: * Year * Record type (in this database this will always be "Birth") * Quarter (March, June, September, and December) * District (each county in England and Wales was divided up into registration districts) * Volume * Page number Note: Names were entered into the volume of the quarter in which notification of the event was received, not necessarily the quarter in which the event actually occurred. Source Information: Ancestry.com. England & Wales, Birth Index: 1837-1983 [database online]. Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc, 2006. Original data: Microfilm and microfiche of the England and Wales, Civil Registration Indexes created by the General Register Office, in London, England. http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/vital/freebmd/bmd.aspx © Crown copyright. Published by permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Office for National Statistics. You must not copy on, transfer or reproduce records without the prior permission of ONS. Additional Resources: Use Free BMD to check any indexed records that are in doubt, at: http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl Parishes are usually listed alphabetically within each GRO Registration District, so those parishes starting with A will have a lower page number than those starting with B.