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Find a register office (registry office) - register and find records of births, marriages, civil partnerships and deaths, and order certificates
Contact information for the General Register Office
Order birth, adoption, marriage, civil partnership and death certificates from the General Register Office (GRO) - find GRO index numbers
Contact details for the General Register Office for Northern Ireland
Documents, certificate, letters, and notes available from the British embassy and consulates in the USA.
Order an official birth, adoption, death, marriage or civil partnership certificate from the General Register Office (GRO) if you need a copy or want to research your family tree.
These guides explain how to use the General Register Office when researching your family tree and family history.
What the public register is, what details you need to give us, and how the public can access this information.
Using our Find and update company information service to follow companies and search company information for free.
A listing of where you can view the General Register Office indexes online and in person.
Find out how to get on the electoral register so you can vote, how to register to vote in more than one place, and how to opt out of the 'open register'.
Birth certificates, registering a death, marriage, family history and correcting certificates
Registering land or property in England - first time registration, transfer of ownership, changing your details on the register, where to register in Scotland or Northern Ireland
Correct an original registration with the register office or GRO - what corrections can be made, who can apply, how long it takes
How to search for information about property and land in England and Wales - find out who owns it, how much was paid for it, how to get a scanned copy of the deeds and how to check the property...
Find out how to register a death in the UK or abroad
Find registered designs in the UK
Find out how to register a birth - who can register, birth certificates
Correct the original registration with the register office or GRO - find out what corrections can be made, who can apply, how long it takes, what they look like
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