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Hi Thanks for all this info. Just bookmarking. Liz

NUDGE !!

Was tellin someone about this thread, so if the info has changed could someone let me know?

Thanks

Sam

thanks for the info that will be great for me the scottish ones are realy good there certs are more detailed idownload mine from scotlandspeople its worth 6 pound to look and they stay on so you can go back joyce from hollandx

So glad to see this Steve! I have been arguing politely with people for 3 years now about this, since I first read about it. Lots of people said it did NOT say the certs would be downloadable, but I cannot see that the Govt would miss an opportunity to let you download them- for a fee, of course. I THINK I read that to search would be free, to view would be £1, and to then download would be £2.50, making a cert £3.50 instead of £7. But that was when I first read of the project, so no doubt the final cost will be different. Anyway - if it is less than £7, I shall be thrilled. Can't wait. OC

brrilliant.............cant wait xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Yes i aggree bob but it aint a perfect world i'm afraid

It would have been better to digitize and index the originals from the district registrars. This would have eliminated all the mistranscriptions and missing records. Would also solve the problem of uncooperative London offices and make the GRO largely redundant. Seems a bit silly to scan transcriptions and not the original. Bob

Presumably that means we can eliminate all the 'wrong' family members more easily and only buy the correct certificate. Less money for the government then! Liz

Your welcome Caz hun Sxx

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

what a love. thanks for the info Steve Caz xxx

Morning Carol mwahh lol aye thats true Sxx

Yep Raven mwahh Sxx

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.

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

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.

Something like SP, Steve... mwaaahh!!

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....

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