(UK) The General Register Office Makes PDF Experiment Permanent

[Jan Meisels Allen janmallen@att.net]

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As previously reported the General Register Office (GRO) has been extending
their historical birth (1837-1918) and death records (1837-1957) PDF trial.
According to an announcement in the Society of Genealogists latest newsletter,
the GRO PDF pilot program has been made permanent as of 16 February 2019.

As reported in the IAJGS Records Access Alert on 30 January 2019 the GRO
raised its price of birth, marriage and death records and PDF versions as of
16 February 2019. PDF versions increased from £6.00 to £7.00 and paper copies
increase from £9.25 to £11.00. This is for certificates in England and Wales.

Additional charges will be applied if you do not order certificates online
or do not include a GRO index reference (where available). Multilingual
forms are now available with applications for certificates "(or separately
with a certificate of no impediment) if needed for use in EU Countries.

More details about the GRO service, including pricing and ordering of
certificates can be found at:
https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/most_customers_want_to_know.asp

The Society of Genealogists Newsletter- March 2019 may be found at:
http://www.sog.org.uk/uploads/Newsletters/SoG_monthly_newsletter_Mar_2019.pdf
See page 9 for this announcement.

History

In 2016 the GRO started a three-part pilot program for ordering records as a
pdf. The first phase was a short trial and limited the number of pdf
certificates overall. It then extended the pdf program until July 2018. It
was then extended with no cut-off date listed, until this notice about the
experiment being made permanent.

Thank you to Mark Nicholls, member, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring
Committee for sharing the information.

To read the previous posts about the GRO PDF trial go to the IAJGS Records
Access Alert archives. To access the archives go to:
http://lists.iajgs.org/mailman/private/records-access-alerts. You must be
registered to access the archives. To register for the IAJGS Records Access
Alert go to: http://lists.iajgs.org/mailman/listinfo/records-access-alerts.
You will receive an email response that you have to reply to or the
subscription will not be finalized. It is required to include your
genealogical affiliation (genealogy organization, etc.)

Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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