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 == General Register Office - Historical Background  ==
-The General Register Office, or The Registrar General, the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, a few years ago conferred over to the Overseas Registration Section at Smedley Hydro, Southport in Merseyside several significant collections containing several types of records series, including the following:
+Before 1837 only churches recorded birth, marriage, and death information in England (see [[England Church Records]]). In the early 1800s, Parliament recognized the need for accurate records for voting, planning, taxation, and defense purposes. Legislation was passed to create a civil registration of births, marriages, and deaths for England and Wales and, for registering the same for British subjects abroad. England and Wales registration began on 1 July 1837 and for British subjects, abroad, some records returned to England begin as early as 1790. For brief list of all those registers of births, marriages and deaths affecting British subjects abroad, see under Civil Registration of British Abroad (below).
-*Civil registrations of Births, Marriages and Deaths (Foreign Office or FO) of English Subjects in Foreign Countries or otherwise known as Consular registers(from 1849)
-*Miscellaneous Foreign Returns of births, marriages and deaths (RG32) with [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/details/C13368-details Indexes to Miscellaneous Foreign Returns of Births, Marriages and Deaths]
-*Miscellaneous Foreign Marriages (RG34)
-*Miscellaneous Foreign Deaths (RG35)
-*Foreign Registers and Returns (RG33)
-*Registers and Returns of Births, Marriages and Deaths in Protectorates (RG36)
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+In addition, the General Register Office, or The Registrar General, and the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, a few years ago conferred over to the Overseas Registration Section at Smedley Hydro, Southport in Merseyside several significant records collection series, which included:
-Before 1837 only churches recorded birth, marriage, and death information in England (see [[England Church Records]]). In the early 1800s, Parliament recognized the need for accurate records for voting, planning, taxation, and defense purposes. Legislation was passed to create a civil registration of births, marriages, and deaths for England and Wales and, for registering the same for British subjects abroad. England and Wales registration began on 1 July 1837 and for British subjects, abroad, some records returned to England begin as early as 1790. For brief list of all those registers of births, marriages and deaths affecting British subjects abroad, see under Civil Registration of British Abroad (below).
+*Civil registrations of Births, Marriages and Deaths (Foreign Office or FO) of English Subjects in Foreign Countries or otherwise known as Consular registers(from 1849)
+*Miscellaneous Foreign Returns of births, marriages and deaths (RG32). See: [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/details/C13368-details Indexes to Miscellaneous Foreign Returns of Births, Marriages and Deaths]
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+*[http://www.bmdregisters.co.uk/ Miscellaneous Foreign Marriages (RG34)]
+*[http://www.bmdregisters.co.uk/ Miscellaneous Foreign Deaths (RG35)]
+*[http://www.bmdregisters.co.uk/ Foreign Registers and Returns (RG33)]
+*[http://www.bmdregisters.co.uk/ Registers and Returns of Births, Marriages and Deaths in Protectorates (RG36)]
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 === <u>'''Civil Registration in England and Wales'''</u><br>  ===