1. General Register Office
GRO
General Register Office

2. Resources BYU YouTube 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

3. What is the GRO?

4. 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)

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

6. Other Resources to help use the GRO
Free BMD
FamilySearch
Ancestry.com
FindMyPast
All of these have indices but certificates have to be ordered through the GRO

7. Certificates Available
Birth
Marriage
Death

8. Birth Certificate

9. Marriage Certificate

10. Death Certificate

11. Registration Quarters

12. Registration Quarters

13. Registration Districts

14. Registration Districts

15. Ann Wright Dec. Quarter 1853

16. Finding a Mother’s Maiden Name

17. gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/Login.asp

18. GRO Site

19. GRO Site

20. GRO Site

21. GRO Site

22. GRO Site

23. Finding a Missing Child

24. GRO Site

25. GRO Site

26. GRO Site

27. GRO Site

28. GRO Site

29. freebmd.org.uk Free Index Can search births Can search marriages
Can search deaths

30. Free BMD

31. Free BMD

32. Free BMD

33. Free BMD

34. GRO

35. Free BMD