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GROS Today Continuities and Change

GROS Today Continuities and Change. By Martin Tyson Departmental Record Officer General Register Office for Scotland. New Register House. An Act to provide for the better Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages in Scotland, 1854. History. Functional Stability:

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GROS Today Continuities and Change

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  1. GROS TodayContinuities and Change By Martin Tyson Departmental Record Officer General Register Office for Scotland

  2. New Register House

  3. An Act to provide for the better Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages in Scotland, 1854

  4. History Functional Stability: • Oversight of registration system • Data custodians • Access to records • Statistical reports

  5. 1861 Census: Arthur Conan Doyle, Aged 1, Picardy Place

  6. Major additions • Census - 1861 onwards • 1939 - registration of population • 1952 - National Health Service Central Register

  7. Major causes of change • Technological change • Administrative change • Societal change

  8. Technological change 1 - Databases • processing of statistical information - Vital Events database, 1974 on • record keeping – NHSCR • future of census?

  9. Technological change 2 - Census processing • 1861 - by hand • 2001 - imaged forms had most information automatically processed • geographical information systems • more data, more analysis

  10. Technological change 3 -Indexing • 1854 - access via paper indexes • 2004 - access via electronic index databases

  11. Technological change 4 -Imaging • 1854 - access to register data by extract copy • 2004 - access to digital images

  12. DIGROS Digital Imagingof the Genealogical Records Of Scotland’sPeople

  13. Provide access to digital images of GROS records for all of Scotland Enable family history search centres to be set up locally DIGROS will :-

  14. DIGROS • Digitisation of all GROS records • Connection with existing indexes • In-house and online • Available at local registration offices

  15. From this…..

  16. Promote closer links with National Archives for Scotland & Lord Lyon Encourage local councils to establish local family history centres Result in “genealogy campus” in Edinburgh by 2006 Scottish Family History Research Service will :-

  17. Technological change 5 - Electronic registration • supply registration software to registrars • electronic creation of register entries • transmitted electronically to centre

  18. Administrative change • Changes in status and nature of registrars – professionalisation, Certificate of Proficiency • Rationalisation of geography of registration system: 1027 Registration Districts in 1855, 231 now.

  19. The Future - new ways of working • Registration bill - powers for online registration • informants talking directly to GROS

  20. Registration Bill (forthcoming) • 32 registration districts • register births, deaths anywhere • powers for e-registration • Major move away from the parochial system of registration inherited in 1854

  21. Societal changes • 1930 - adoption registration introduced • 1939 – end of irregular marriage • 1977 – Marriage (Scotland) Act – current basis for marriage law

  22. Societal changes – new and upcoming • Gender Recognition Act 2004 • Civil Partnerships Bill • Family Law Bill

  23. Gender Recognition Act 2004 • Set up Gender recognition panels • Recognise transgender • Set up gender recognition register • Allow marriage in new gender • Provide for existing marriages to be dissolved

  24. Civil Partnerships Bill • Allow same sex couples to register partnership • To acquire legal rights similar to those of a married couple

  25. Family Law Bill • Where an unmarried couple both jointly register a child’s birth, father will automatically acquire parental rights. • 46% of births in 2003 to unmarried parents • Only 6% registered solely in mother’s name

  26. GROS: Records Enterprise By Martin Tyson Departmental Record Officer General Register Office for Scotland

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