If you're ever ordering a Civil Registration Certificate, always ask for a "full certificate" , as an "extract" can also mean a "short certificate" in which details such as parents names do not appear. The actual Civil Registers of Births, Deaths and Marriages are available on microfilm through the LDS library network from 1855 to 1875, plus the two census years of 1881 and 1891. The Civil Birth and Marriage Registers from 1855 to 1875 are indexed on the IGI (with some errors). David, Western Australia ----- Original Message ----- From: Pam Thomson <pamthom@intergate.bc.ca> To: <ORKNEY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 3:09 PM Subject: [ORKNEY] GRO online indexes > > At 10:27 AM 8/24/99 -0400, you wrote: > > >I'm confused ! I've been toying with the idea of viewing extracts at the > > >GRO. Is the information there any different or better than whats available > > >through the LDS family centers ? > > >Is it worthwhile to spend my 6 pounds ? > > > > Only if you plan on ordering copies of baptismal records or marriage > > records which have more detail in the years after 1861 > > > > Anne Rendall > > > I think the extracts themselves cost 10 pounds and I agree that the > ones before civil registration are usually not worth it. On the other > hand, I just spent 6 pounds for 24 hours of access to the indexes and > feel that it was well spent this time. I think what made it very > valuable was that I was searching for a pretty uncommon name, TODRICK > & I could collect all incidences of the name in a 10 year period, > often on one page. At Scots Origins, for your 6 pounds you can > download 30 pages of information. I f you use the wildcards, e.g. I > searched for Tod*ric*, you get most of the variable spellings. When I > got desperate to find one particular birth, I searched for Adam* > Tod*ri* and found him- Adam Toddridge! There were many that should > have been in the IGI because they were OPR, but they weren't- I'd say > 30 to 40 % were not in the IGI. You can get to Scots Origins at > http://www.origins.net/GRO/ > This was the first time I had people born later than 1855 to search & > found it interesting to see the deaths and the census records- 1891 > only, but the births are not too usefull unless you can match them > with the census records. Unlike the OPR, they don't list the parents > in the indexes. > -- > Pam Thomson of BC, Canada > New email address: as of August > pamthom@intergate.bc.ca > > >