Hi Regards to the accuracy of GRO certificates. I always get them from local register offices. A while ago a new cousin contacted me with a different birth date for one of my relatives. He had got his certificate from the GRO and sent me a copy. It was the correct certificate and recorded in the year the birth took place. The local register office had sent me a the copy of a re-issue of the certificate early in the next year as the informant had corrected the birth date within the six weeks allowed and the new certificate appeared in the GRO index for the first quarter of that year not the birth year. The local office I used also provided a photo copy Wedding certificates with the actual signatures as a certified copy. Regards Mike in a suddenly very wet Droitwich. On 22/12/2015 13:25, Tony Proctor via wrote: > Certainly the textual 'GRO Index' has significant errors, Brian, including > typos and lost entries. I've never been totally certain, though, about the > certificate images. I have seen instances where the image from the LRO > differs slightly from that obtained from the GRO and I've not been able to > explain how or why. They are obviously for the same event, and both with > hand-written information that includes signatures. > > Tony Proctor >