GRO pilot service - PDFs for £6 each - Genealogists' Forum

ElizabethHerts · #1 12-10-17, 11:02

General Register Office (GRO) - PDF Extended Pilot

The GRO is piloting a service from 12 October 2017 to provide portable document format (PDF) copies of digitised historical birth and death records. The pilot will run for a minimum of 3 months to enable GRO to assess the demand for this service over a prolonged period.

Applications for each PDF cost £6, must be made online, and include a GRO index reference.

England and Wales records which are available as PDFs in this extended pilot include:

Births: 1837 –1916
Deaths: 1837 –1957

Note: A PDF is not a certificate and has no “evidential” value, and therefore a certificate is required for official purposes, e.g. applying for a passport, driving licence or giving notice of marriage.

Indexes

Have you used our Online Historical Birth and Death Indexes yet? They may include extra information, for example; maiden name or age at death. See Most Customers Want to Know.

Lindsay · #2 12-10-17, 11:09

Thanks Elizabeth - I 've built up a list of death certs and was hoping they'd be running a PDF pilot soon!

James18 · #3 12-10-17, 11:28

Oh nice, thanks Liz!

Now to find my list of wanted certificates...

Phoenix · #4 12-10-17, 12:29

Thank you, Elizabeth. Number one ordered!

JBee · #5 12-10-17, 15:17

Is there a separate link?

Phoenix · #6 12-10-17, 15:33

https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/c...es/default.asp

Kit · #7 12-10-17, 20:27

Phoenix when you get the PDF please let us know what it looks like.

marquette · #8 12-10-17, 20:41

I have also just ordered a PDF - a death cert. Time stamped 21.45 on 12 Oct, so hopefully they wont be overwhelmed by orders on the first day !

If this works, it will be much quicker than waiting nearly 3 weeks for snail mail to Australia! and cheaper too.

Di

NickiP · #9 13-10-17, 01:12

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Originally Posted by Kit

Phoenix when you get the PDF please let us know what it looks like.

I ordered one last year when they had the initial 3 week trial. They are basically the entry from the register (ie. the "central" part of the certificate, not the full page) with the Registration District, Sub District, Year and County hand written rather than typed on the certificates (probably an edited section of the original register). You get the same information as the certificates.

Kit · #10 13-10-17, 02:46

Quote:

Originally Posted by NickiP

I ordered one last year when they had the initial 3 week trial. They are basically the entry from the register (ie. the "central" part of the certificate, not the full page) with the Registration District, Sub District, Year and County hand written rather than typed on the certificates (probably an edited section of the original register). You get the same information as the certificates.

Thanks Nicki