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seems its gonna be up and running next April

opps sorry lol At the moment, in order to get a copy birth, marriage or death certificate, you have to first search the GRO indexes (quarter by quarter unless you're lucky and find it on FreeBMD) either on-line, at the Family Record Centre or at the relevant local register office. When you have the required reference you then pay your £7 and order a copy certificate (again, either on-line or in person)! As from next year you will be able to search the complete records by name on-line and download a copy certificate. Presumably there will still be a fee involved, but it should be a lot cheaper than £7. The downside is that you will just get a plain paper copy, but there may well still be the option of paying for a 'proper' copy!

me to Lin I hate ordering certs lol so this should make life a lot better for us lot

Ahh sweet maid Joy No tis not that kind of bird mwahh Sxx

only downfall of this that i can see is that payment will only be by credit/debit card - so for those of us without them will be stuck to using the old system

Thats a point L But just use a pals and pass the cash over lol Sxx

lorraine i got myself a pay as you go credit card which i use just for memberships and fees! sam

This will be a good thing especially if you're not 100% sure it's the right cert. ~~~~~~~~Steve Mwah!!! ;-)

Hi Jules babes mwahh yep and should be loads cheaper to (i hope lol) Sxx

its called a unique card and you apply on line. tenner fee for the card plus either six quid per month or one pound per transaction - up to you. top it p at the post office, takes 2 days for credit to appear pm me if you look but can't find xx

sam - now im being a numpty - where, how, what !!!! lol sounds good to me

The way I understood the DOVE project was that it would still be searchable indexes but would include from the September of 1837; age at death for deaths (currently included from the January quarter of 1866) mother's maiden name for births (currently included from September quarter of 1911) spouse’s surname for marriages (currently included from the January quarter of 1912) Of course if it does allow the download of a certificate then that will be great....

Something like SP, Steve... mwaaahh!!

Ok the full artical lol Here's the latest info about the GRO's DOVE Project supplied by the Federation OF FHS. LATEST NEWS ON CIVIL REGISTRATION. FFHS representatives met recently with the GRO (General Register Office)management team for the DoVE (Digitisation of Vital Events) project to review progress on the project. The most important news we learnt was that a system is now being developed to enable the indexes to the digitised records to be searched via the internet, and these should be made available progressively from April 2008. Work is well advanced on digitising the historic birth records (those from 1837-1934) and over 40 million of the 70 million records have already been processed. These have been loaded on to the EAGLE (Electronic Access to GRO Legacy Events) database. The EAGLE project will introduce a more efficient system of recording and tracking customer orders within the GRO at Southport, and its implementation is imminent. Yet another bird's name has been chosen as the acronym for the third project - MAGPIE (Multi Access to GRO Published Index of Events). This will provide online indexes to the newly digitised records, and will be accessible via the internet, hopefully by April 2008. The FFHS has accepted the GRO's invitation to take part in user testing this new internet facility, although its search capabilities may be more restrictive than the wide-ranging possibilities we have asked for. By April 2008, the historic birth indexes will have been loaded onto EAGLE and the historic death records (those from 1837-1957) should also have been loaded. This means that those indexes will be accessible via the MAGPIE system on screen terminals at TNA at Kew (as well as via the internet) when the ONS facilities at the Family Records Centre close. Subsequently, the loading of the historic death records will be followed by the modern birth and death records, then the historic marriage records (those from 1837-1945) and the modern marriage records. For those records that have not been added to the MAGPIE project by April 2008, access will be available at Kew, as an interim measure, to the images of the existing indexes on microfiche and on computer. The original vellum and paper indexes will be moved to TNA at Kew, but will not be on open access. As a separate process, the Registrations Online project that deals with current registrations (2007 onwards) will provide indexes of these on terminals at the FRC by July of this year, with an interim search capability that will be more basic than that eventually offered by MAGPIE.

and there was me thinking it was to do with my name stupid me

Thanks for the explanation Steve. Sounds good to me. No more waiting. I just hate it when you have to wait at least 7 days for a cert. Jean x.

Yep Raven mwahh Sxx

Morning Carol mwahh lol aye thats true Sxx

what a love. thanks for the info Steve Caz xxx

As to that Liz Only time will tell lol Depends on how the search is set up, but i hope so