Hi Tony You don't say where you saw this update mentioned But it sounds like a local index The births for 1837 to 2007 are complete (the GRO index) on several sites The GRO index being made up from the quarterly returns from the local offices, I suspect you are talking about the index being complied of those local offices registers Therefore, whilst the GRO index *should* contain all, a few will have been missed off, and some incorrectly transcribed So its wise to check all available indexes (including the various sites who may have different transcriptions of the same index and therefore have some differences in interpretation) Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 11/02/2016 14:12, Tony Spendel via wrote: > Hi, > > I've asked this question before but didn't receive any replies. > > Try again. >>From time to time I receive emails saying that births etc have been updated for some place [email protected]@ to 19&&. > > What I would like to know is this, does this mean those BMDs were NOT available anywhere before? > > Tony --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus