new price for GRO certs

[woofas]

I, along with many other people who have been tracing their ancestors for many years, have a number of "wrong" certificates.  Would it not be possible for Rootschat to host a forum where unwanted certificates could be listed?  There must be thousands out there and a simple index of Year/Quarter/Surname could be devised.  Personally, all I would want is recompense for post and packing and the opportunity not to have to pay the full GRO price.

[davidrigg3]

Post details of unwanted certificates here:

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/board,153.0.html

[Luzzu]

I don't think I would mind so much about the price if there was a better way of checking that I am ordering the correct certificate.

Luzzu

[dobfarm]

Hi

Yes! but a lot are transcribed & indexed and worth a try. This website link below sometimes if they cover the area of look up that one wants and give the mothers maiden name with a birth GRO index, from this look at marriages of the bride and grooms in Free BMD's website that match the surnames nearest to the birth year (national wild card search) It takes while and a calculator !but gives results

http://www.genopro.com/genealogy-links/details.aspx?id=20&t=www.ukbmd.org.uk

Marriages before 1911c

The use of the first census year after a marriage for location or first sibling birth place many help track down the church of marriage,

[dobfarm]

this is an appeal to everyone !! Please

put a postem on FreeBMD for every single cert you have.
If everyone did this it would be a great help to people dithering about buying a cert

eadaoin

as Quote

Info like location- Father and Mothers names can be found  from family records (like Family Bibles) parish registers- grave MI's extra  (ie pre 1866 as for age at death) that can be put on postems as well as cert info.

[dobfarm]

Hi All

Buying certs is expensive if there are a few to buy! most people rush off to buy Great grans certificates. Please think first!

Contact family history societies first of area of research as they have a lot of information on computer and CD or in bookform!, this cost if you have few certs to buy can be offsett!. Try and work out a possible marriage of parents with the use of census info free in Library edition of An*st*y dot thingie -Example: - say Joe Blogg married  possible wife of 2 names given being Nora Smith and a Mary White-thus look for a Joe & Mary Blogg and a Joe & Nora Blogg in the census that may fit with a run of sibling etc- if your lucky there will only be one entry in the census that fits. This does not always work in very common surnames but its worth trying before buying certs that soon will be £10 as Gov in yearly increases.

Local libraries have a lot of the same Family History society info in book form and index at hand to the experienced librarian in ancestry and know how to look up fast! their advise is given free over the phone or a small look up charge!! again off sett against GRO cert charges! when looking for a number of people or siblings of GT/GT Granddads with familes of anything up to 10 children those days. Average about 5 kids= about £50 in cert cost with marriage and sibling birth certs of 5 kids with new charges

Dobby

[sandra70]

this might be the link regarding the last price rise

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/pdfdir/fee1202.pdf

[davidft]

this might be the link regarding the last price rise

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/pdfdir/fee1202.pdf

interesting link.

I note there is no mention of a ten yeat price freeze from 2003 that some people had been touting.

[dawnsh]

Reply 83

When I got thru & actualy spoke to someone & explained my problem - that the childs 1st name & the last numbers of the index were unclear & how did i order the cert as I needed the parents names from it so I couldnt supply them to check it (I KNOW its mine, the chlds name is very unusual)

you can always send an email to

UnclearFiche @ ips.gsi.gov.uk  (remove spaces before and after @ )

and ask for clarification before ordering

Hope this helps

Dawn