Quick question

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loflo · 03/02/2010 20:11

Is there an English equivalent of Scotlands People at all? On there you can view copies of certificates etc but cant find anything similar for England.

TIA

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AvengingGerbil · 03/02/2010 20:13

Not in general. Ancestry.co.uk has started putting up BMD certs but so far they are only for London ones (good for me, as I have many generations of plebeian south Londoners to look up!).

I fear otherwise you can only get indexes and pay for the actual certificates .

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loflo · 03/02/2010 20:16

Aw thanks anyway. Good luck with yours

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Ivykaty44 · 03/02/2010 20:19

mormons are starting toask to do more bap,marr,bur registers so keep looking as they will start to go online here and there as counties strike deals as the London M archives did

was there a particular county you were searching for? have you tryed family search?

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loflo · 03/02/2010 21:31

I am looking for living relatives of my Great Granny who were in the Kings Lynn area. I have had some great help from rootschat and have the names and years of birth of the three children she had when she moved away from Scotland but trying to find if they have any children/grandchildren. Will keep at it

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Ivykaty44 · 04/02/2010 08:27

It is much harder looking for living relatives, putting an edvert into a local newspaper may get better results

AvengingGerbil · 04/02/2010 09:07

loflo

Do you have access to Ancestry? It now has the BMDs for events from 1916-2005, so unless you are dealing with really common names you stand a good chance of tracing forwards (which is, as Ivykaty says, harder than going backwards).

I can look stuff up for you if you don't mind posting Great-Granny's details here.

Ivykaty44 · 04/02/2010 09:22

I have a feeling the rules though have changed on ordering certificates under 50 years old - so although you will be able to search the GRO online at a website, you well may be stopped from ordering the certificate to make sure of the connection....

The GRO have tightened up after I.D.'s were used of persons who had died young

throckenholt · 04/02/2010 09:47

there is no equivalent. The BMD certificates dating from 1837 on are not online anywhere. Ancestry are putting up the parish church registers for the London area.

FreeREG is slowly indexing parish registers - the aim is to do it for the whole UK - but is patchy at present. So for Kings Lynn - Norfolk coverage is good - so have a look there for yours.

Some areas have images online (or are starting to) - eg essex and kent.

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