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The Common Room / Re: new price for GRO certs
« on: Monday 08 March 10 11:13 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Silvilocks on Monday 08 March 10 09:11 GMT (UK)
On the question of value for money, consider the following. These are all similar services i.e., produce and post a document, which is all that the GRO are seen as doing by many people.....
 If you NEED a birth/marriage/death certificate, to apply for a passport or to claim a legacy, a charge of £9.25 suddenly looks pretty reasonable. If you WANT a certificate for use in a hobby, then if you don't like the price, don't pay it.

Simples!


Oh well said Silvilocks; a person after my own heart.  OK I am in the small time league when it comes to GRO certificates. Just a few a year and basically always when I am 'sure' they are the right ones..not just on a flight of fancy that they may be good. I cannot comprehend the big time users ordering hundreds a year, but I acknowledge the pain the rate rise will cause. As Sivilocks said, if you dont like it then dont buy them.
Service delivery from GRO to Australia has been faultless; order online for a measly seven quid and a week or so later there is the cert in my letterbox in Canberra. As one poster said, it would have been neater if the GRO had rounded the price for a cert to ten pounds. The price rise will not set me back one iota.

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The Common Room / Re: Poisons
« on: Monday 08 March 10 10:43 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Steve G on Thursday 29 October 09 00:27 GMT (UK)
Mike; Surely the DC would state something along the lines of, eg. " Cause of death: Strychnine Poisoning ~ Self administered ". Or, ' All manner of vile, physical Armageddon ' (However Strychnine poisoning is explained, medically), 'Due to self administration of' ..... what ever the poor girl took.

 Granted; I'm yet to handle quite such a Cert. But the ones I've seen tend to be pretty precise as to what killed them. Sometimes we may need to red Google, to find what it all means, in layman's terms.  But, it generally comes out in the wash.

 Sod it! Look; The suspense is killing me here! If ye like; PM me the GRO Ref's and I'll send for the thing myself! Tell everyone else in a mass PM  ;D


Mike, I can confirm what Steve G said in his post. The latest death certificate I have received from the GRO online ordering spells out the cause of death as "Suicide by Lysol poisoning whilst temporarily insane. No P.M." This was for the death of a young woman [an ancestral relative] in 1933 just months after she married!!!.
So yes, fork out the seven quid and buy the DC. It also spells out the date of the inquest in Nottingham. I have not yet tried to get the inquest or coroners report [hard for me in Australia!!!]. As I understand it Lysol was a readily available disinfectant and was certainly used for suicide purposes.

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Occupation Interests / Machine operator_piston rings
« on: Wednesday 23 September 09 08:22 BST (UK)  »
In 1923 the occupation of my grandmother, then aged 24, was given as machine operator piston rings.  My grandmother was living at home and I presume was working in a factory close by somewhere in Wandsworth, SW London. Has anyone come across this occupation before? Is it perhaps linked to railway workshops that were not too far away?

Moderator comment: only small portions of certificates may be posted to assist with deciphering handwriting.  Since this certificate was typed, it could not be justified.

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The Common Room / Re: GRO Certificates by email
« on: Monday 21 September 09 20:17 BST (UK)  »
A different take on this hot topic....might help any petitioners to Parliament!!! I am not a technical expert, but here I raise the question of what constitutes a certified copy. A search of the web has turned up results like http://www.intertek-fts.com/services/electroniccertificates/ with claims like The ******** electronic certificate combines the high levels of security often associated with bank notes, but in electronic format. The certificate can be sent by email, or even fax, but cannot be falsified.


Although these electronic certificates may relate more to trade than vital events, the principle would seem the same...the need for authentic documentation that can be delivered quickly and securely. Worth thinking about.

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The Common Room / Re: GRO Certificates by email
« on: Saturday 19 September 09 00:42 BST (UK)  »
Lots of fairly strong complaints about Royal Mail service, strikes etc...no doubt plenty of justification. But wait, on the GRO website under delivery options there is a list of alternative options for delivery, some of which do not involve Royal Mail. You may have to pay extra for these. Maybe somebody can say if they have had experience of using them!!!
Alternative postal options     
  Special Delivery UK Guaranteed next day delivery
  DHL UK Next day delivery
  Overseas Airsure Royal Mail ensure item leaves on first available flight
  International Signed For Fast tracked to first available flight from UK. Signature required on delivery
 
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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Can someone date & place this studio photo portrait.
« on: Thursday 17 September 09 12:28 BST (UK)  »
Tks all. Over on the deciphering board the gurus and magicians have taken a clip from my image and in no time have cracked the studio name at topic thread http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,406864.0.html. I take the name to be C. Bown.
Deciphering the phographer/studio name was a part of the puzzle. Dating the picture remains the issue on this board. I will now go the next step and perhaps ask if anyone challenges the notion that the photo was taken around 1920?

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Deciphering Help Needed
« on: Thursday 17 September 09 12:10 BST (UK)  »
;D Tks all. The topic is now completed! Can this be put onto the thread title page in the deciphering forum please. Who can do that & how is it done?
 I now take the name to be C. Bown. What kind of tweaking of the image got the resolution seen in the post by mjb!!?? Magic happens.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Can someone date & place this studio photo portrait.
« on: Thursday 17 September 09 10:09 BST (UK)  »
Tks all. Getting warmer. The surname Bown looks on the money. Now need to know what dates he was in business. In particular was he working around 1920. Obviously the narrower the date range the bigger the smile on my face. The address can only be 81 or perhaps 61 Clapham Park Road, SW. Ancestors lived in Wandsworth.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Can someone date & place this studio photo portrait.
« on: Thursday 17 September 09 09:24 BST (UK)  »
 ::) Tks oldhippy for your reply #1. The answer to your question is no, it does not make it any easier for me to read. I could not read it before and I cant read it now. The bottom line is that I cannot decipher the studio name, and no amount of enhancing, zooming, colour reversal or image rotation will get me out of that predicament. I have made appeal to my relative who has the original to try & read the name and let me know, but to no avail so far.
It may however help somebody with a better knowledge of photographic studios in Clapham Park Road.  Once again, thank you for posting.

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