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07-06-18, 22:41
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They have at last replied to that one:
Investigated – No amendment required GRO Comments: Indexed data not available. Not sure what they mean by that! I wish there was some way of contacting them other than submitting error reports through the site. 
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09-11-18, 22:27
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The latest Lost Cousins newsletter describes a similar situation with Jul-Sep 1881 births, so I wonder just how many times this happened.
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10-11-18, 00:22
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I can't remember: can we still order certificates in the old fashioned way?
I got a similar, useless, reply when a freebmd entry (of someone who did exist per censuses) was not in the GRO database. This despite the fact that all seven other entries with the same page number were there.
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10-11-18, 10:29
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Yes, you can still order certificates the old way.
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16-11-18, 05:44
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16-11-18, 10:39
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I hadn't, Kat. Thanks. I don't see why the GRO would need to compare their online indexes against FreeBMD's, though - surely they could compare them to the original printed ones?
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16-11-18, 22:51
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Presumably what he actually suggested was that they take a list from Freebmd, check it against the original register, and then attempt to find the entries on the GRO site.
There are, of course, spurious entries, created by greedy Registrars. Who knows whether there are spurious entries, created by bored indexers, which never link back to registers?
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