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Frequently Asked Questions
1. About us
The General Register Office (GRO) is based in Southport, Merseyside and holds records for all births, deaths and marriages that have been registered in England and Wales from 1837.
2. Records available
Ordering via our online service
The following certificates can be ordered through our GRO on line ordering service –
Certificates for birth, death, marriage, civil partnership and adoption events registered in England and Wales and for certain British Nationals, who were born, married, formed a civil partnership or died overseas.
Multilingual Standard Form (MSF) alongside a certificate to translate specific fields in a registration certificate into the official language of an EU member country that is desired.
Multi-lingual Standard Forms may not be recognised by EU Member States once the UK has left the EU. Individuals should contact relevant authorities in EU Member States to check whether they will accept MSFs post-Brexit.
Commemorative marriage certificates for silver, ruby, golden and diamond wedding anniversaries.
PDF's for historical digitised civil registration records held by GRO (birth entries from 1837 to 1919 and death entries from 1837 to 1957)
At the point of ordering you will be required to provide the GRO Index reference number for the certificate that you are interested in. The GRO online indexes should be used to try and identify the index reference for: birth records from 1837 up to 100 years ago, and 1984 up to 2004; and death records from 1837 to 1957, and 1984 up to the current year in England and Wales; alternative index sources include
https://www.freebmd.org.uk/ and the host sites (please refer to section 7 for more information). If you are unable to trace the record you can still apply for a certificate but there will be an additional administration charge if a GRO index reference is not provided.
You will be prompted to supply further details for more recent births and deaths (within the last 50 years) when you complete the online application form.
If you are unable to complete the mandatory fields, then you will not be able to apply online and you will need to follow our telephone ordering process. Please contact us on +44(0) 300 123 1837 for further information.
Ordering offline (by telephone or post) only
You can search for marriages on the Free BMD site (still in progress ) or better still FMP need subscription also Ancestry Hope it helps RF
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