COUNCIL OF IRISH GENEALOGICAL ORGANISATIONS
21st December 2012
News from Belfast's General Register Office
On foot of CIGO's years of lobbying and successful submission delivered before the Northern Ireland Executive's Finance & Personnel Scrutiny Committee in February 2009, GRONI has now implemented new regulations which allow for all future death registrations to note each deceased person's parents' names. Up to now, only the deceased's date and place of birth was recorded, and even this practice only dated from the end of 1973. The new regulations came into force on Monday, 17th December 2012.
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