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FreeBMD. Inghilterra e Galles, Archivio di registrazione civile dei decessi, 1837-1915 [database online]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.
Dati originali: General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. London, England: General Register Office. © Crown copyright. Published by permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Office for National Statistics. You must not copy on, transfer or reproduce records without the prior permission of ONS. Database Copyright © 1998-2003 Graham Hart, Ben Laurie, Camilla von Massenbach and David Mayall.

 Inghilterra e Galles, Archivio di registrazione civile dei decessi, 1837-1915

Questo database è una versione digitalizzata degli archivi di stato civile dell'Inghilterra e del Galles, riportate ogni trimestre al GRO (General Register Office) di Londra, in cui è possibile effettuare una ricerca. L'archivio copre gli anni tra il 1837 e il 1915. Per richiedere una copia del certificato di morte della persona in oggetto sono necessarie le informazioni trovate nell'archivio originale.

Country wide civil registration of births, marriages and deaths commenced on 1 July 1837 in England and Wales. Registration took place at local civil registrars who in turn reported to the Registrar General at the General Register Office (GRO) in London. This national index to vital records is an essential source of genealogical information for family historians.

Since the original birth, marriage and death registers are not open to the public, getting access to the information on one of these certificates is done by first searching the national birth, marriage and death indexes, that have been created by the GRO for this purpose. The indexes for the three events are each divided into quarterly volumes, with the names for each quarter listed alphabetically. Once an entry in one of the indexes is found, you are then able to use that information to order of copy of a death, marriage or birth certificate from the GRO. The other information that can be obtained from the index includes:

  • Year

  • Record type (in this database this will always be "Death")

  • Quarter (March, June, September, and December)

  • District (each county in England and Wales was divided up into registration districts)

  • Volume

  • Page number

Note: Names were entered into the volume of the quarter in which notification of the event was received, not necessarily the quarter in which the event actually occurred.

This database is made available to Ancestry.com users, courtesy of the volunteers of the FreeBMD organization. The leadership of FreeBMD have organized the permissions and tools necessary to enable thousands of volunteers to convert to electronic text, and publish online, searchable indexes to the civil registrations in England and Wales. Because of the nature of the index you will note that not all of the fields have been indexed all of the time. Until 1866, most of the indexes were handwritten, making the task of conversion sometimes difficult.