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Tips for Finding a Record When Missing Key Information: England & Wales, Birth Index | Ancestry

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 Country wide civil registration of births, marriages and deaths commenced on 1 July 1837 in England and Wales. Registration took place at local civil registrars who in turn reported to the Registrar General at the General Register Office (GRO) in London. This national index to vital records is an essential source of genealogical information for family historians.
 
 Since the original birth, marriage, and death registers are not open to the public, access to the information on one of these certificates is obtained by first searching the national birth, marriage, and death indexes that have been created by the GRO for this purpose. The indexes for the three events are divided into volumes by year following which entries are listed alphabetically. Once an entry in one of the indexes is found, you are then able to use that information to order of copy of a death, marriage, or birth certificate from the GRO. Information that can be obtained from the birth index includes:
 
 Full name of child
 
 Maiden name of mother
 
 Month and year of registration
 
 Registration district (each county in England and Wales was divided up into registration districts; jurisdictions are organized and appear as they existed at the time the record was created)
 
 Inferred county (the county is inferred based on what counties the registration district covered)
 
 Volume number
 
 Page number
 
 Note: The district listed is the district where the event was registered, not necessarily the location where the event actually occurred.
 This database contains only the birth registers of the civil registration indexes from 1916-2005.

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