Tired of waiting for your certificates ?

[Sue Thomas]

I have today ordered 2 death certs from Camden reg office over the phone. They are both C19th and for St pancras.
They rang back and said the search would take a while as I could only narrow it down to particular quarters and would take 7-10 days. At least they let me know I suppose!!

To bring you up to date - a solitary death cert arrived this am. They can find no trace of the other This is strange as there is a GRO listing for it. So I have now ordered it from the 1837 site. Estimated despatch date is 21 Feb. It will have taken me a month to get this particular cert. Just a tad frustrating!!
At least the one I did receive was for the correct person. Ho hum isn't genealogy fun?

[Magrat]

Hi all,

I must have been lucky with getting my certs through the 1837on line site.  I haven't waited more that 2-3 weeks for any of them and I have just ordered an overseas certificate through them for an army birth/baptism and received the certificate in 4 days! 

I have just ordered another overseas certificate and will keep my fingers crossed for a similar length of time.

Cheers
Magrat

[Paul E]

a solitary death cert

Those are the saddest deaths, when no one else is around!

Paul

[Sue Thomas]

Yes Paul they are.However, my friends and familly think I'm really strange because I get excited at the arrival of a death cert. But then aren't all my rellies that I'm searching for dead?

[trish251]

Hi Sue

My family think I'm strange because when we go on holiday the first place I want to visit is the local cemetery. Little do they know that I plan the holiday locations to coincide with the cemeteries I wish to visit.

Trish

[rogerofgoostrey]

Hi All

Further to my replies no 25 and 46 my marriage certificate from the GRO at last arrived three weeks after the order was placed.  This was a week later than they promised and compares to the three days that the related birth certificate took to come from the local registry office.

The good news is that I could read it, it was the correct one and the size is A4 so it fits my folder.

I won't be using this service again unless there is no alternative as in this case.

I'm a committed registry offfice fan!!

Regards

Roger

[Paul E]

Still waiting for mine from the GRO after three and a half weeks.  Maybe they don't like the cut of my jib?

Paul

[Sue Thomas]

They can't possibly have seen your mugshot on Rootschat can they?
Don't take it personally Paul. The glitch seems to be nationwide.
Patience is a virtue/genealogist waiting for a certificate!!!!

[Paul E]

Mustn't grumble, mustn't GROan -
I realise I'm not alone
But its still frustrating nonetheless
With every passing day - the stress

I'm GROwing older every day
Watching the postie pass this way
By the time my bleedin' certs arrive
I may not even be alive!

GROwling at them does no good
They're drowning in a massive flood
Of marriage, birth and death requests -
It's put their systems to the test

One thing's for certain, while I wait
My beard's GROwn to a proper state
Perhaps I need to GROvel more
To get the certs to my front door?