UK GRO Certificate 1838-1911 Collection

Total number of certificates recorded is 1007
Number of Birth records is ............ 680
Number of Marriage records is .... 122
Number of Death records is ......... 205

22nd September 2024

We have written a Windows program for summarizing the "Scrapbook" media report from Legacy 10.

The program is used in conjunction with the Legacy Scrapbook media report so that it can be used as a report of all the media being used in Legacy without the verboseness.

Further details can be found here.

Both Legacy version 10 and our program are 100% free.

7th September 2024

We have fixed an issue with the marriage certificate search facility. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.

28th June 2024

We have released a new version of the GRO certificate spreadsheet. It has been massively enhanced to provide more flexibility and many customisable options have been added. These functions include:

The ability to import worksheets from the old GRO spreadsheet.
The ability to flip the colour scheme.
The ability to add a tick mark into a cell or range of cells.
The ability to check for duplicate entries.
The addition of the new worksheet named "Unsure".
The ability to move records from "Incorrect" or "Unsure" worksheets.
A backup facility has been added to allow a backup to either the same workbook, or a different workbook.
The ability to re-apply formatting to a worksheet.
The ability to change the date formats on the sheets.
The ability to recalculate the cost column or add it if it doesn't already exist.
The ability to sort the data on a sheet into ascending date order.
The ability to change the right click menu without the need to change code.
The ability to disable the right click menu and re-enable it. Any changes to the menu items will be picked up when the right click menu is re-enabled.
The ability to change the options in the dropdown menus without code changes.
The right click menu has been made into a submenu and is now toward the top of the Excel right click menu.
The ability to choose the colours used for formatting the sheet rows.
The ability to change the tab colours for a worksheet.

For a full description of how to use the spreadsheet, please read to documentation which is available from here.

The spreadsheet is available from here.

9th April 2024

The issue mentioned below has been resolved. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Thank you for your patience.

31st March 2024

There is an issue with our webhost causing issues with our search utilities when navigating to an additional page. Their technical support folks are looking into it.

We will update this page once the issue is resolved. Thank you for your patience.

5th January 2024

We have released another free Excel spreadsheet. This one assists in the organisation of artefacts from the General Records Office in the United Kingdom. It should help prevent ordering of duplicate artefacts and index them.

It is available from here or from the top menu.

12th December 2023

We have completed the input of the Great Ayton marriages.

The page can be access either from the menu bar above or by clicking here.

22nd November 2023

We have changed the searches for birth, marriage and death certificates by adding the ability to show names that have alternate spellings.

These changes will automatically take place when you select a name from the drop down. For example if you search for 'Purves' as a surname the search will show any alternate spelling matches. i.e. 'Perves'.

We hope to roll the ability out to our other search pages shortly.

9th September 2023

We have validated the links to other websites, corrected the ones that moved and marked as 'dead' the ones we can no longer locate

We are in the process of entering marriages from Great Ayton in Yorkshire from 1837-1900. These are the ones performed in the All Saints Church. You can follow the progress by clicking here.

9th January 2023

We released a new, free Excel spreadsheet named BMD Lister.xlsm.

This spreadsheet takes the text file created by downloading from the FreeBMD website results and puts them into a worksheet.

Please refer to the webpage for more details. The webpage is available from here.

8th January 2023

We have are in the process of adding details of irregular marriages officiated by Henry Collins at the Lamberton Toll in Scotland.

Progress and searches of the current database can be made here or from the menu bar above.

13th June 2022

We have updated the Census spreadsheet to include the 1921 UK census in the date and skeleton sheets.

If you need any assistance in adding this to an existing workbook, please feel free to contact us.

1st May 2022

We had to fix some of the code behind the webpages due toa server change by our ISP messing things up. It should all function correctly now. Please let us know if things aren't working. Many thanks.

18th February 2022

We have fixed an issue with the Death Certificate search and we have truncated the cause of death field to 40 characters on the search criteria selection only. The actual certificate details have the full field displayed.

2nd January 2022

We are currently adding certificate details for births, marriages and deaths to include years up to and including 1921.

We have decided to do this in light of the 1921 census being about to be released.

14th September 2021

We have corrected a glitch with the Death certificate search from the summary page.

All searches should now work fine, if not please contact us with the details so that we can correct the issue.

19th June 2021

We have added the names, occupation and life status of the fathers of the couple getting married to our results pages.

We have made the assumption that if the status isn't declared as 'deceased' on the marriage certificate than the father is still living. If you know differently, or if you can fill in some of the missing data (relationship of witnesses) please contact us with the details and we will add them.

30th January 2021

We have updated the Family.zip file to fix an issue with the automatic age at death calculation.

To retro fit this to your spreadsheets please contact us for instructions by clicking on the contact form.

24th December 2020

We have updated the Family.zip file to automatically calculate the age at death and enter it into the relevant location. To retro fit this to your spreadsheets please contact us for instructions by clicking on the contact form.

18th October 2020

We have added a brief case study experience. It can be accessed from the top menu bar or from here

8th July 2020

We have fixed an issue with the search facility. It now should functions correctly

30th June 2020

We have added to the Barningham Baptism database . We now cover years 1581 to 1950.

24th June 2020

We have made a little tweak to the birth, marriages and death search pages to make the output in surname order rather than database key order.

Several more certificates have been added to the database. Please checkout the database statistics for a current count.

14th April 2020

We have completed the data entry for the Bowes Parish registers.
We are planning to start entering the register information for Barningham Marriages or Deaths next.
Please check back for progress.

3rd January 2020

Happy New Year! We now have over 3000 parish records in the Bowes Parish register and we are still only up to the letter "B"! It will be a long haul but we are working on it.

22nd December 2019

We have added an additional statistic page for the Bowes registry page. It is available from the main menu above.

10th October 2019

The Excel™ Spreadsheet downloads have been fixed so that they work correctly under Microsoft’s Edge browser.
Sorry for any inconvenience caused by this failure in Edge.

4th July 2019

We are pleased to announce that the Bowes Parish register page now has a search facility available.

We are still in the process of adding records to the database but what is there is now searchable.

23rd June 2019

More marriage certificates have been added to the database.

Marriage certificate report details have been developed and are available from the dropdown menu.

10th June 2019

Added a new marriage certificate database. Currently only a couple of certificates have been added but it is hoped to add more soon.

Marriage certificate report details are still in development as they present some unique challenges.
It is hoped to have this developed shortly.

Changed the search options pages to cut down of any searches for people not in the database. The selections now are populated from information contained with the database only.

20th April 2019

Fixed an issue with the death certificate search failing. Sorry for the inconvenience

5th March 2019

Added a guestbook to the site.

Redesigned the menu system to use CSS instead on JavaScript.

Corrected the colour scheme.

26th January 2019

Minor changes were made to the database statistic page.

24th August 2018

A Major site re-vamp has been undertaken. The new home page is now Ancestry.php.
Please refresh any bookmarks to reflect this.

A death certificate database has been added to the site along with a corresponding search utility

Major changes have been made to the menu bar to accommodate the new death certificate database.

1st August 2018

Cleaned up output generated when you print a page. No adverts, menus, or visitor statistics will be printed.