Getting Started
Helpful Addresses
General Register Office
Order copies of duplicate certificates.
Certificate Services Section, General Register Office, PO Box 2, Southport PR8 2JD
t 0845 603 7788
e certificate.services@ons.gsi.gov.uk
Family Records Centre [until Spring 2008]
Access the GRO’s BMD records for England and Wales on microfiche.
1 Myddelton Street, London EC1R 1UW.
t 020 8392 5300
e frc@nationalarchives.gov.uk
General Register Office, Scotland
New Register House, 3 West Register Street, Edinburgh EH1 3YT
t 0131 334 0380
w www.gro-scotland.gov.uk, but www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk is the site for Scottish BMD and census records, parish registers and wills.
General Register Office, Northern Ireland
Oxford House, 49/55 Chichester Street, Belfast BT1 4HL
t 02890 252000
w www.groni.gov.uk or email BMD queries to gro.nisra@dfpni.gov.uk
General Register Office, Eire
General Register Office, Government Offices, Convent Road, Roscommon
t +353 (0) 90 6632900
w www.groireland.ie
The National Archives
The government’s official archive.
Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU
t 020 8876 3444
w www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
The Society of Genealogists
Excellent library and courses.
14 Charterhouse Buildings, Goswell Road, London EC1M 7BA
t 020 7251 8799
w www.sog.org.uk
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church)
Maintain a worldwide network of Family History Centres and the internet-accessible International Genealogical Index (IGI).
w www.familysearch.org
Other archives
Access to Archives database
w www.a2a.org.uk
Archon directory of UK record repositories
w www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archon/
