Anyone else having trouble with the GRO? It seems to be reporting everyone that matched the surname regardless of the MMS or sex entered.
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I did a couple of test searches using the mmn Smith and it narrowed it down but still included male and female. The little ? next to the Gender box says they use that information to narrow down the search, if it is available. Maybe more recent registrations don’t include that?
Have you got a place of birth that would help narrow it down?Main research interests.. CAESAR (Surrey and London), GOODALL (London), SKITTERALL, WOODWARD (Middlesex and London), BARBER (Canterbury, Kent), DRAYSON (Canterbury, Kent), CRISP (Kent) and CHEESEMAN (Kent).
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I don't think I have done much on GRO past 1920, so possibly wouldn't notice the no sex choice.
But there is a new choice on first names, so they must be updating the site, as it is not on your screen snip - and is there now.Carolyn
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Researching: Luggs, Freeman - Cornwall; Dayman, Hobbs, Heard - Devon; Wilson, Miles - Northants; Brett, Everett, Clark, Allum - Herts/Essex
Also interested in Proctor, Woodruff
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Originally posted by cbcarolyn View PostI don't think I have done much on GRO past 1920, so possibly wouldn't notice the no sex choice.
But there is a new choice on first names, so they must be updating the site, as it is not on your screen snip - and is there now.
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OK maybe it isn't new then, there is a choice on the drop down for derivative, perhaps always been there? 4 choices now on first namesCarolyn
Family Tree site
Researching: Luggs, Freeman - Cornwall; Dayman, Hobbs, Heard - Devon; Wilson, Miles - Northants; Brett, Everett, Clark, Allum - Herts/Essex
Also interested in Proctor, Woodruff
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I'm only seeing three options. The derivative one has always been there (I think). What's the fourth one you can see? I am using Edge in Windows 10.
There's definitely something happening behind the scenes though as surname now has only two choices. There were three. I think the missing one is "Similar sounding variations" or words to that effect.
UPDATE - AHA!! I've gone to the opposite end of the date scale and I now can see 4 choices on forename so I was wrong - deriviative must be the new one as the others are exact, phonetically similar and similar sounding. These last three are also visible in surname as they used to be. From 1984 - 2004 though, the choices are limited in both fields.
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"similar", but I thought that was always there!
didn't read to the end, so think it is new.Last edited by cbcarolyn; 03-11-20, 20:29.Carolyn
Family Tree site
Researching: Luggs, Freeman - Cornwall; Dayman, Hobbs, Heard - Devon; Wilson, Miles - Northants; Brett, Everett, Clark, Allum - Herts/Essex
Also interested in Proctor, Woodruff
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Very odd. It's as if when they added on the later years they used a different app to display them. I rarely use the recent years so it's possible that it has always been like this for those years.People: Canton, Wiseman, Colthup, Scrace
Places: Pembrokeshire, Kent.
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Government website and apps................what could possibly go wrong?
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