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GRO Index Search Helper

Adds additional functionality to the UK General Register Office (GRO) BMD index search

As of 2018-04-11. See the latest version.

Author
cuffie81
Ratings
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Version
1.11
Created
2016-11-05
Updated
2018-04-11
Size
27.9 KB
License
N/A
Applies to

Adds some basic functionality to the General Register Office (GRO) BMD index search.

- Adds button to toggle gender between Male and Female
- Adds buttons to navigate backwards and forwards through years
- Adds alternative results views for births & deaths
When using the alternative views, clicking a record shows/hides the 'order certificate' links.

- Supports user defined alternative results views
See below for more details.

- Adds ability to sort records when using alternative views
Note that sorting is only performed on the current page's records.

- Adds access keys and quick keys:
# Switch gender and perform search
[ Decrement year by n years (1, 3, 5) and perform search
] Increment year by n years (1, 3, 5) and perform search
{ Decrement year by 10 years, without performing search
} Increment year by 10 years, without performing search
? Perform search
@ Switch record type (ie toggle between birth and death)
~ Switch results view (ie toggle between default and alternative)
| Copy results


- Hides some superfluous text on the form, reducing the clutter, and hides the reset button.


[b]User defined results views[/b]
User defined views are supported using script values where the script value key must begin with view_EW_Birth or view_EW_Death. The value is the view, containing the CSS and HTML. The HTML is a Handlerbars.js template and may reference the result objects. See code for examples.

Currently only ViolentMonkey appears to allow users to view/edit/delete script variables, which can be done when editing the script, under the 'Values' tab.

Birth and deaths result objects have the following properties:
- items: array of birth/death records
- failures: array of errors whilst parsing results

Birth and death records have the following properties:
- gender: M|F
- forenames: string of forenames
- surname: string
- year: numeric value
- quarter: numeric value
- quarterName: short month name (ie Mar, Jun, Sep, Dec)
- district
- volume
- page
- copy: occasional copy
- noForenames: flag indicating the forenames are not known and contains '-'

Birth records have the following additional properties:
- mother: mother's maiden name

Death records have the following additional properties:
- age: assumed to be years but may be uncertain due to limitation of GRO results
- birth: estimated birth year based on death registration year and age (assumes age is in years)