Hi John & Everyone I think two things are getting confused here. BMD GRO Indexes are available at the places John has listed. Some Record Offices have the Marriage Registers for Church of England Marriages within their area because they are also designated as the Diocesan Record Office (Record Office for the local Church of England Area). I know that Liverpool Record Office is also the Liverpool Diocesan Record Office. Register Office Marriages are a different matter because they took place in a non religious building (in the main-there are exceptions) they belong the Local Register Offices, all of which is overseen by the General Register Office and that is the reason why they still hold them. There are some marriage records on Lancashire BMD which give the venue as 'Register Office or Registrar Attended' which means that the marriage may have taken place at a Roman Catholic Church or another religious venue where by law the Registrar had to be in attendance. In the case of Roman Catholic Marriages- many of those Marriage Registers for the Liverpool area have also been deposited at Liverpool Record Office. I hope this clears up any confusion. Kindest Regards Susan On 20/02/2015 10:33, John P Laws via wrote: > 'As I understand it all registered births/Marriages/Deaths are searchable at > certain Record Offices & Libraries on Microfische' > > > > -- > Susan A Atkins > Guild of One-Name Studies 1961 > scotchmer@one-name.org > http://one-name.org/name_profile/scotchmer/ > Lancashire Regional Representative > rep-lancashire@one-name.org > Scotchmer Archive http://one-name.org/archives/scotchmer.html