GRO death reg news

[Astoness]

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GRO add 70 years of deaths to Online View BREAKING NEWS

There was some great news from the General Register Office today – from 9am this morning it became possible to view England & Wales death register entries from 1837 all the way up to 1957, which is the last year for which the registers have been scanned and digitized. Previously you could have paid £7 for a PDF of the entry - and waited nearly a week to get it - so the new service offers an effective saving of 65%.



Although birth register entries from 1837-1922 have been available since the public launch of the Online View service in July, death register entries from 1837-1887 were the only ones available at launch (and this was also the case during the private beta, which I was fortunate to be involved in from September 2021 onwards).



What does this mean for family historians? Those of you who have used the service since July will know that being able to access images instantly (the only delay is the time it takes to pay) and cheaply (each register entry costs just £2.50) transforms the way we work

 

[cba]

I used the service this morning and was able to download my great grandfathers death certificate. This gave me his cause of death, place of death, address at time of death and who registered his death. All of this information was new to me and was not the story passed down through the family! We sometimes need to check the family history narrative if we want our history to be factual.