GRO Certificates by email

[Lesanne]

  Start it up then Nick... Where do I sign... 

[Nick29]

To be honest, I'm not that bothered.  I quite like having the certificates with their official seals and watermarks.  The only time I'm annoyed about paying £7 for a certificate, is when it's for the wrong person. 

[LizzieW]

I quite like having the certificates with their official seals and watermarks.

But what do you do with them all.  I've got hundreds (many I got from someone else who was happy to pass them on to me after he'd written up that particular part of the family tree).  I'm not sure my descendants will be happy with all those pieces of paper.

Lizzie

[Lesanne]

I have 5x Robert Norris's and they're all wrong....    several wrong Daisy Wood's...  countless £4 debited as not same parent/spouse...

  and quite a few that came with mine, obviously someone else's  
                 posted info, no-one picked them up yet........

 Bet I'm not the only person with this tale....  

Added Lizzie ... yes.. very grateful for the 37 in one go...
  I then cut out the middle strip, lessened paper by 2/3

[Nick29]

I quite like having the certificates with their official seals and watermarks.

But what do you do with them all.  I've got hundreds (many I got from someone else who was happy to pass them on to me after he'd written up that particular part of the family tree).  I'm not sure my descendants will be happy with all those pieces of paper.

Lizzie

Why wouldn't they ?   I'd be thrilled to receive anything that my ancestors passed down to me, even if it was a local newspaper from the period.  Finding the Bible that my g. grandmother passed down to her family was one of the greatest thrills of my family research.

[LizzieW]

 

I'd be thrilled to receive anything that my ancestors passed down to me,

Problem is, your children may destroy them after your death, unless you specifically ask for them to keep them for your g.grandchildren

But I do know what you mean - now if only someone somewhere had kept g.grandad's birth certificate.

Lizzie

[Luzzu]

Received today the 3 certificates I ordered on 4 September.  Really pleased all 3 are correct and they will go a long way towards demolishing my brickwall.  However, one was typed and not having received a typed one before can't help feeling a bit disappointed with it because it doesn't look quite as good as the others and out of the 3 it is the most important because it is my gt, gt grandfather's.  What is the reason for this? - is it because the original entry is badly damaged and difficult to read.

But what do you do with them all.  I've got hundreds (many I got from someone else who was happy to pass them on to me after he'd written up that particular part of the family tree).  I'm not sure my descendants will be happy with all those pieces of paper.

I would absolutely love a box of old paper documents etc., to go through but
my much loved late gt grandmother put a lot of our family documents/photographs on the fire because they were taking up too much room in a cupboard and she decided to have a sort-out one day  .

Luzzu

[les_looking]

Received today the 3 certificates I ordered on 4 September.  Really pleased all 3 are correct and they will go a long way towards demolishing my brickwall.  However, one was typed and not having received a typed one before can't help feeling a bit disappointed with it because it doesn't look quite as good as the others and out of the 3 it is the most important because it is my gt, gt grandfather's.  What is the reason for this? - is it because the original entry is badly damaged and difficult to read.

But what do you do with them all.  I've got hundreds (many I got from someone else who was happy to pass them on to me after he'd written up that particular part of the family tree).  I'm not sure my descendants will be happy with all those pieces of paper.

I would absolutely love a box of old paper documents etc., to go through but
my much loved late gt grandmother put a lot of our family documents/photographs on the fire because they were taking up too much room in a cupboard and she decided to have a sort-out one day  .

Luzzu

the certificate you receive from the GRO is not the original it is the one the clerk filled in, if you want the original with signatures then you have to get that from the registration office/area they were married in,
a typed one USUALLY is a replacement for a damaged one etc,
or as i recently found out the ones for London the Lma records recently done contain the original (photocopied) signature

[Nick29]

There are two copies of all BMD records.  The BMD records held at the GRO are copies of the originals held by the offices where the BMDs were originally registered.  If the quality of either of these is good enough, you may get a photocopy of the entry in that register, but when the original is of poor quality, the entry will be transcribed, and written either in longhand or typed.