GRO Certificates

[stonechat]

Thanks for the clarification Guy

I don't think downloadable certs are likely to be at the top of the legislation list for a new govt

[FosseWay]

It is wasteful but at the same time it is very logical.
The GRO system is geared to produce the certificates in the shortest possible time.
This means that some certificates may be ready for dispatch before other certificates.
Imagine the complaints if they held back a number of certificates because one was delayed due to either having to be written by hand (due to the master being illegible) or due to having to go through a manual checking system.

Fair enough, and it explains why my one marriage cert was separate from the six others as it arrived on a different day. But the other six arrived on the same day. By any standard of economy, logic and environmental sustainability, they should have gone in one envelope. As I mentioned before, they used to come together if ordered together unless there was a significant delay on one/several certs but not others.

The legislation that covers England & Wales prevents the registers being copied in such a way.

Thanks for the explanation. I must say I find the government's reasons flimsy in the extreme. They are in the position of being able to change the law if they wish -- why didn't they simply enact new legislation at the time it was discussed? I appreciate that thereafter it hasn't been a priority and is unlikely to be for the new government, which makes it all the more galling that proper action wasn't taken when the iron was hot, so to speak.

[coombs]

I finally received my last 2 certs on Monday. I now have a very built up biography of my Snell ancestors from Marsh Baldon, Oxfordshire. Richard Snell died 28th August 1873 aged 85 of fracture of the hip and old age.

[dawnsh]

Hi to all contributors.

Certs ordered through the GRO before the 6th April deadline were dated for despatch around the 12th April.

Allowing for the delays that we have all experienced, there are now very few certs overdue from that date. My modest selection of birth, marriage and death certs were all delivered by Tuesday and I was one of the last to order.

If you are based in the UK and still haven't received your certs please contact the GRO and make a complaint. I'm sure that they will be a percentage that have failed to be processed for a number of reasons including wrong reg district, volume & page number references. There may also be some outstanding where a reference check was requested. A small number may have got lost in the post.

If you are based abroad, please allow a few more days for the overseas mail backlog to be cleared caused by the Icelandic volcano erupting and causing havoc with UK airspace.

As has been stated before on similar topics of which there are a few,  this topic has run its course and is now locked.

If you have any matters arising through your dealings with the GRO, other than the delays which some of you may still be experiencing, please start a new topic.

Thanks

Dawn

[suttontrust]

Another certificate ordered from the GRO (one of three) has gone missing, and I've had to put in a complaint.  They really must get their admin systems sorted out.