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Subject: Re: GRO certificates - a survey
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:11:16 EST
In a message dated 14/11/2009 15:56:52 GMT Standard Time,
writes:
As other's have said when the index was microfilmed the tile on the film
and microfiche (reproduced across the top of the microfiche) was St
Catherines's Index or St Catherines House Index (I am not certain off
the top of my head).
Because of this many LDS family history centers refer to the index (the
GRO Index) as the St Catherine's Index.
For the FHC to have called it anything else would have been rather
foolish as it would have caused much confusion.
In the same way as if a book carries a title to avoid confusion that is
what the book is called in any index
Hi Guy,
I stand corrected because I genuinely thought that is what has happened,
I had not seen it described as this and although I have used the fiches
occasionally I have never seen them described thus. Perhaps I was more
interested in the contents than the titles and as my time was limited on my
visits to the local Record Office I just got on with looking.
Thank you for pointing this out folr me.
JUDY ELKINGTON
[N. Derbyshire, England]
www.elkingtonfamily.com
www.one-name.org/profiles/elkington.html
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