Hi Gary,
It is worth knowing wrt UK BMD's that civil registration only started in
July 1837 and was not mandatory until 1875. Even then not all people
registered births (and may have used false names!!)
Parents have 2 months in which to register a birth and the indexes show the
date of registration and *not* the dob. Thus a birth registered in Feb 1886
have actually have been in Dec 1885. There is no legal requirement for the
child to have their father's surname either.
Ron Ferguson
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Griffin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: 11 June 2005 18:07
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] RE:Using quarterly dates in Legacy
Karen,
I believe that the way the BMD index register works is that all
registrations (from Churches, Courts, etc.) within a District are gathered
up after the end of the quarter and compiled into an index for that
particular District. It may be done differently but every case where I
have obtained the actual certificate, the real dates fall within the
bounds of the referenced quarter. Late registrations do seem to be
handled differently, some seem to go into the quarter when the actual
registration was made while others have been added (often hand written) at
the bottom of the applicable index page of the quarter in which the BMD
occurred. In earlier years many BMDs were never registered which just add
to the fun.
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