I just went on line to order a death certificate and found this. Interesting reading !!!! Jean www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/news/Dove_contract_signed.asp EXTRACT , The General Register Office (GRO), part of the Office for National Statistics, has awarded a contract to Siemens Business Services to scan, digitise and index more than 250 million birth, marriage and death records from 1837 to the present day.