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Sarah Tyacke

It included the building of a greatly expanded repository on the office's site at Kew in 1995, and the subsequent removal of services from the old Public Record Office building in Chancery Lane; the opening of the Family Records Centre for family historians in 1997; and the merger of the office with the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts in 2003 to form the new National Archives.



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General Register Office for England and Wales

In 1997 the GRO staff were relocated to Southport, Merseyside while public access to the records and indexes was made available at the new Family Records Centre (FRC) in Clerkenwell.