General Register Office (GRO) - Births, Deaths and Marriages registration

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The level of certificate application receipts significantly increased
as a result of the BBC series in November/ December last year.
The GRO continues to receive high levels of applications as a result
of this continued interest in family history research.
As a result we are despatching the majority of standard orders with a
GRO index reference between 8 and 10 working days* after receipt.
A full recovery plan is in place and it is expected that the 4 working
day service will resume from the beginning of April 2005.
T

and from Ancestors Magazine they are quoted as saying that in November the
number of certs increased by 33,000 up from 115,000 for October that's an
increase of 28% so I for one think they have done tremendously well
Rob