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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: - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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GROS TodayGROS TodayContinuities and Change Continuities and Change
ByBy
Martin TysonMartin Tyson
Departmental Record Officer Departmental Record Officer
General Register OfficeGeneral Register Office
for Scotlandfor Scotland
New Register House
An Act to provide for the better Registration of Births, Deaths and
Marriages in Scotland, 1854
History
Functional Stability:
• Oversight of registration system
• Data custodians
• Access to records
• Statistical reports
1861 Census: Arthur Conan Doyle, Aged 1, Picardy Place
General Register Office
forS C O T L A N D
information about Scotland's people
Major additions
• Census - 1861 onwards• 1939 - registration of population• 1952 - National Health Service
Central Register
Major causes of change
• Technological change
• Administrative change
• Societal change
General Register Office
forS C O T L A N D
information about Scotland's people
Technological change 1 - Databases
• processing of statistical information -
Vital Events database, 1974 on
• record keeping – NHSCR
• future of census?
General Register Office
forS C O T L A N D
information about Scotland's people
Technological change 2 - Census processing
• 1861 - by hand
• 2001 - imaged forms had most information automatically processed
• geographical information systems
• more data, more analysis
General Register Office
forS C O T L A N D
information about Scotland's people
Technological change 3 -Indexing
• 1854 - access via paper indexes
• 2004 - access via electronic index
databases
General Register Office
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information about Scotland's people
Technological change 4 -Imaging
• 1854 - access to register data by extract copy
• 2004 - access to digital images
General Register Office
forS C O T L A N D
information about Scotland's people
DIGROS
DigitalImaging of the
GenealogicalRecords
Of Scotland’s People
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information about Scotland's people
DIGROS will :-
• Provide access to digital images of GROS records for all of Scotland
• Enable family history search centres to be set up locally
DIGROS
• Digitisation of all GROS records
• Connection with existing indexes
• In-house and online
• Available at local registration offices
From this…..
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Scottish Family History Research Service will :-
• 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
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Technological change 5 - Electronic registration
• supply registration software to registrars
• electronic creation of register entries
• transmitted electronically to centre
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information about Scotland's people
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.
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The Future - new ways of working
• Registration bill - powers for online
registration
• informants talking directly to GROS
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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
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Societal changes
• 1930 - adoption registration introduced
• 1939 – end of irregular marriage
• 1977 – Marriage (Scotland) Act – current basis for marriage law
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Societal changes – new and upcoming
• Gender Recognition Act 2004• Civil Partnerships Bill• Family Law Bill
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information about Scotland's people
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
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information about Scotland's people
Civil Partnerships Bill
• Allow same sex couples to register
partnership
• To acquire legal rights similar to
those of a married couple
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information about Scotland's people
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
GROS: Records EnterpriseGROS: Records Enterprise
ByBy
Martin TysonMartin Tyson
Departmental Record OfficerDepartmental Record Officer
General Register Office for ScotlandGeneral Register Office for Scotland