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Member Since: July 2006 Posts: 21,823 Send Message	brummiejan	Report	21 Aug 2017 12:33
	Hi all. I might look a bit dim if all of you know this already! But for anyone who doesn't, you can search birth indexes using MMN before 1911 on GRO site. I only found this out last week! :-)
	Researching: Myatt, Hanks, Eccleston, Powell, Clungunford, Birmingham
Member Since: January 2003 Posts: 49,504 Send Message	Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it	Report	21 Aug 2017 12:47
	Yes it's been available for some time, Amongst other things it saves buying the wrong certs when looking for children of a couple on the 1911 census who state how many chiidren deceased Very handy in not wasting money on wrong certs
	Researching: Surname Fahse. Germany. Essex .South East London My avatar is one of our wedding photos of 1957
Member Since: March 2003 Posts: 26,067 Send Message	ArgyllGran	Report	21 Aug 2017 16:13
	Also very useful for discovering children who died in infancy, between one census and the next. And for verifying the births you thought were the right ones for a particular family. I thought for years that I'd found the birth of one of my people - right name, place and year - but GRO's mms listing proved it wasn't him after all.
	Researching: Old genealogists never die.....they just lose their census.