XPost: alt.genealogy   
   From: charlesellson@btinternet.com   
      
   On Sun, 08 Feb 2026 16:39:13 +0000, Peter Johnson   
    wrote:   
      
   >On Fri, 6 Feb 2026 21:59:01 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver"    
   >wrote:   
   >   
   >> (The GRO themselves are   
   >>particularly bad, using the first initial of a month to distinguish   
   >>quarters, thus including "J", which unless known, could be January,   
   >>June, or July.)   
   >>   
   >As GRO only use M, J, S and D it's not that difficult. And January and   
   >July are not the end of quarters.   
   >   
   It varies with what part of the system you are looking at. The search   
   page presents month-month-month as a search term but the result can   
   show a letter or a quarter number. In any case, it indicates when the   
   event was registered not when it occurred so anything registered in   
   the first quarter could have occurred in the preceding year. In   
   practice that only translates to the year for an event in the latter   
   three quarters or "about" the year for the first quarter if the   
   event's date is not already known.   
      
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