Link: Ordering Certs from GRO Roscommon

[addison]

My Father was James Craig and married my Mother Mary Whiteside from Donard Street Belfast, they married in Belfast in June 1944, that's all I know.

[myluck!]

YOu will need to apply to the Northern Ireland office for post1922 certificates
http://www.rootschat.com/links/0m5l/

[bclc71]

its been a little while since I last requested copies from the GRO - can someone confirm to me the easiest way to do this from overseas. What I was doing was emailing a request with index details and then calling and paying by credit card.  i was paying 4 euro a search. The photocopy was then mailed to me. 

As i live in Australia the combination of calling at the right time and then awaiting the few weeks postage is a little frustrating.

Has there been any advancement on this?  Has the price changed ( my 4 euro a search seemed very reasonable and others seemed to be paying more??). when I called and spoke to the lovely ladies they always seemed bemused to be getting a call from overseas - so how are others doing this? 

thanks in advance.

Barbara

[shanew147]

Once you provide the full index references from the BMD Index, and request a research cert the cost should still be €4 per cert. I dont think GRO have an Email address - just download the form and post to Head Office.

see :  Ordering Certs from GRO Roscommon   (1st post on this thread)


Shane

[Eidde]

I download the appropriate form and then fax my requests (with credit card details). From Oz it's 0011 353 90 6632999 - €6 for the first copy, €4 for additional copies. Time to arrive can vary between 2- 3 weeks, in my experience.

Eddie

[Elwyn Soutter]

It’s still €4 for photocopies (including the first one) provided you give them the full reference details (ie place, year, quarter (where there is one), volume & page number).  They may add costs for postage outside Ireland. I don’t know.

There is no e-mail option for certs prior to 1922 and for photocopies. You have to use mail or fax.  Generally, as Eidde says, they take about 2 weeks. A bit longer obviously if you live further away.

[bclc71]

Looking back at thread and looking at the standard form I remember why I do it differently!!  the form is unworkable for the purpose we need and the pricing is very confusing - I use a word document with all my requests clearly detailed and at the end confirming the total payment amount -@ 4 euro a search. 

When I first did this a few years back I rang and asked GRO Roscommon what to do. I have no access to a fax so they gave me an email address (being the email address of the lady I spoke too - not an official GROI email address) so i emailed her and then at her suggestion rang back an hour or so later and gave her my credit card details. worked well but think this was a bit back door!!

If they could only bring in a paypal payment arrangement it would be so much easier and safer. An email address would be great too!!  Between people posting credit card details to posting cash its asking for trouble - yet its a priceless service!! 

[HugoBeauchamp]

In response to bclc71's comment, some years ago (Feb 2008), I wrote to GROI (using their comment form) and suggested that they use the same on-line ordering system as the GRO for England & Wales. After all the indexing system is the same for both since the GRO(I) registration system was modelled on the GRO(E&W).

Therefore, since the two systems are the same wouldn't it make sense for GRO(I) to purchase a ready-made on-line ordering system from GRO(E&W) and at the same time have some 'nice' BMD certificate templates on which to have them printed or perhaps even more imaginatively be able to email the results out to on-line customers.

Their response, in Mar 2008, was that my comments  "will be addressend in separate correspondence with you"

Just think, they could save money on international postage, time on putting certificates into envelopes and if they smartened up the photocopies using coloured BMD templates (a la GRO E&W) they could even charge more! (Although not as much as Southport)

By and large I must say that when I need to speak to the staff at Roscommon I have almost always found them to be helpful; one young man went the 'extra mile' to help me find the birth of my grandfathers brother.

Meanwhile, I'm still waiting for the separate correspondence ...................................

H

[Joy Dean]

I am slightly confused - there is nowhere in the form to put the full reference details i.e. registration district, year/quarter, volume and page numbers.