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The General Register Office is a subsidiary of HM Passport Office, which in turn is an an agency of the Home Office.
Records originally held by the GRO may now be part of [[The National Archives]]. Those records classified as Non-Statutory were transmitted from the GRO to TNAin 1977, <ref>"British Births, Marriages and Deaths Overseas" FamilySearch Wiki, see [[General Register Office#External links|External links above]]</ref> where they have a National Archives catalogue reference, series RG. Some of the records in respect of military overseas births, marriages and deaths remain with the GRO. GRO documentation about the latter group of records is very brief. Some events are recorded in multiple places.
The GRO records are closed to the public.
'''Official'''
*[http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates Order a certificate online] from the GRO. This is the only GRO website. Once you are logged in, it is now (introduced November 2016) possible to search for GRO Historic Birth and Death Index References through the website. "... the new GRO indexes enable researchers to click through from their findings and make purchases on the same platform. Crucially, the birth index also provides mothers’ maiden names for the full range of entries. In other online indexes, it is only possible for researchers see these details for births registered from July 1911 onwards.<ref>[http://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/news/gro-launches-new-digital-services "GRO launches new digital services"] by jonbauckham, 4 November 2016 whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com</ref>
: '''Note''': If you do not supply the GRO Index Reference, the certificate will cost more, and may take longer to be sent. The cheaper PDF format is not available for Forces or Overseas Records, or UK marriages.
*[https://www.gov.uk/general-register-office Contact details for the GRO] on Gov.uk, including email address for queries about certificates and advice to include ‘GQ’ in the subject of your email.
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20051223043104/www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/research/searchingforoverseasrecords/index.asp Searching for overseas records] Archived website GRO.gov.uk January 2006
'''Other'''
*[http://www.awin1.com/awclick.php?mid=2114&id=201071 findmypast]. Refer [[General Register Office#Overseas records series RG|Overseas records series RG]], above. Previously there was a dataset called "British Overseas Marriages" 1818-2005, which were transcriptions only, elsewhere <ref>W., Hugh [http://hughw36.blogspot.com.au/2008_08_31_archive.html Genealoge] September 06, 2008. Retrieved 8 January 2015</ref> stated to be from records at the [[Society of Genealogists]]. Noted were records from the Cape of Good Hope, Malta, Turkey etc., in addition to records from St John's Church, Calcutta. These records appeared to be very limited in detail, those looked at only stated the year of marriage, and did not state the spouse name. However, this dataset no longer appears in the list of datasets under this name. , and may have been incorporated into the larger database.
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Register_Office GRO] Wikipedia
*[https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/British_Births,_Marriages_and_Deaths_Overseas British Births, Marriages and Deaths Overseas] FamilySearch Wiki*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070221104808/http://www.familyrecords.gov.uk/frc/pdfs/british_in_india.pdf Fact Sheet: The British in India] from the now closed [[Family Records Centre]] which was run jointly by the GRO and the National Archives. familyrecords.gov.uk, now archived. The records from the Family Records Centre are now divided between the two mentioned organisations.*The National Archives brief guide [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-person/bmdatseaorabroad.htm Looking for records of a birth, marriage or death at sea or abroad]*[https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/British_Births,_Marriages_and_Deaths_Overseas British Births, Marriages and Deaths Overseas] Family Search Wiki
*[http://levantineheritage.com/regist1.htm Levantine Heritage: Registers] levantineheritage.com. Retrieved 2 October 2014. The term “Levantines” designates primarily those Europeans and Americans who settled in the Levant - a region generally conterminous with the Ottoman Empire - from the early 17th century until 1923.
:FamilySearch catalogue entry microfilm 1999050, items 8-9, Church of England [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/762275 Parish registers and notes, 1763-1959: Izmir, previously Smyrna, Turkey], from the London Metropolitan Archives (previously Guildhall Library).
