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Series
General Register Office: Formerly Indexes to Deaths
Catalogue reference: RG 2
What's it about?
RG 2
RG 2 was returned to the General Register Office on 11 January 1962.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- RG 2
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Title (The name of the record)
- General Register Office: Formerly Indexes to Deaths
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Description (What the record is about)
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RG 2 was returned to the General Register Office on 11 January 1962.
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- No records held at The National Archives for this series
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Population
- Census
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13327/
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