GRO put Birth and Death indexes online

Peter Calver asks the question in his newsletter: "Is it possible pages were lost or 'stolen' from the BMD registers back in the time when the general public were allowed to personally search registers?, or not scanned & so not transcribed, or just bad writing leading to misinformation.
This wouldn't be picked up in the new search of indexes as there is no 'hit or miss or maybe allowed for in searches.
 
I know people steal microfiche from the National Library, so why wouldn't they steal pages from registers? Sound only too horribly logical to me. :(
 
Shortly before the Ordnance survey disposed of their archive copies of maps to a commercial organisation, I was speaking to the person in charge of the section while ordering some town maps, and he said that while , some time before, the maps were accessible to search by the public in their map room, a number went missing, though how someone put a rolled up 2ft square map in his pocket I do not know. Presumably he folded it, which would have damaged it and possibly made it less useful.
 
I'm always amazed at what people can get away with stealing, Mike. We have a dinosaur museum here in Canberra (don't know how good or otherwise it is, have never been) but someone stole one of the massive models from outside the building a while ago. They would have needed a ute or a truck but nobody noticed. Seems that if you do whatever you want to do with an air of authority you can get away with it. Can't imagine how you'd get away with wandering off from Ordnance Survey with a cardboard cylinder filled with rolled maps but hey, who knows?

Miocrofiche and pages of books are so much easier as they can be slipped into folders (or handbags) with little difficulty.
 
She always denied responsibility for allowing the foul up but my mother's friend was an assistant manager in the department. Two guys dressed as delivery men said they had come to collect a piano but couldn't decipher the customer's name and address on the paperwork. Happy to help, someone. . . . :cool:
 
Is anyone having problems visiting the GRO web site? I cannot log in despite receiving a new password from them. I just get messages that login has failed.
 
Just a little wander-away-a-bit....with marriages, which we were NOT discussing, If the indexes have been typed up incorrectly re page no. as with one giving 1955 - 5b-1416 for the grooms marriage & 5b-1417 for the brides marriage [to each other] is the GRO clever enough to work out that they married each other & sort it out?
 
Ma-dotcom said:
is the GRO clever enough to work out that they married each other & sort it out?
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Probably not Ma. I reported a missing index on 12th November. Their bumph said "Updates to the indexes will be made on a weekly basis" It still hasn't been rectified. Maybe it was a transcription error and should have read "Updates to the indexes will be made on a yearly basis"
 
Just an update on the trials that the RGO did:

In one of my newsletters it says that on the 15th and the 18th September the General Register Office will be meeting with user representatives in London and Southport to discuss the latest developments. So at least they are moving forward, if somewhat slowly, though probably not for a government department.:)
 
Sis said:
OOps, I gather everyone realises I should have put GRO, not RGO. Can you believe I read before posting too!o_O:rolleyes:
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I'm fairly certain you would be forgiven. To tell the truth I didn't even notice. Goes to show how observant I am
 
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