GRO General Register Office Resources BYU You Tube

GRO General Register Office

Resources BYU You. Tube Channel GRO Certificates-Harold Davis English Civil Registration Made Easy-Kathryn Grant English Research: Finding Missing Children Using the GRO Site-Kathryn Grant English Research: Finding a Women's Maiden Name Using the GRO Site-Kathryn Grant

What is the GRO?

Repository for certificates of vital events (birth, marriage, death) Began July 1, 1837 Registration required for all births, marriages, and deaths Done by registration district Indexed by quarter (Mar, Jun, Sep, Dec)

Why use the GRO? Only source of actual certificate (need to order certificates from here) Find missing children Find mother’s maiden name

Other Resources to help use the GRO Free BMD Family. Search Ancestry. com Find. My. Past All of these have indices but certificates have to be ordered through the GRO