Birth & Death Certificates by PDF from GRO

[LizzieW]

Going to get more ordered

It's too easy isn't it?  I'm researching 1st cousins 3 times removed  and I've found a couple who possibly died in childbirth and then I found another family where 2 of the sisters died in the same quarter of the same year (as twentysomethings so not babies).  Question is, do I spend money getting PDFs for such distant ancestors to satisfy my curiosity?

[Blue70]

I don't bother with distant relatives only direct ancestors and the occasional sibling such as lost sheep or strays that moved to another place and have a question mark over what happened to them.


Blue

[LizzieW]

Blue - I'm doing it because I'm stuck on one direct branch - one of my g.grandfathers - so if I only did the direct ancestors I'd have finished the rest of the tree years ago.

[StevieSteve]

Got my PDF at lunch time today ordered on 18th Oct

Got my PDF mail at lunchtime today ordered on 19th

1/ Wonder if lunchtime is going to be the standard email send time

2/ Email system seems to be working so no need to continuously check to see whether it's there yet.

[lisalisa]

Got my PDF at lunch time today ordered on 18th Oct

Got my PDF mail at lunchtime today ordered on 19th

1/ Wonder if lunchtime is going to be the standard email send time

2/ Email system seems to be working so no need to continuously check to see whether it's there yet.

I received the email notification yesterday at 10.23am, it was the date the pdf was 'due' to be ready. (birth cert)
So it wasn't early like the first one I ordered.  That was in the account days before the email was sent.  (death cert)

[lisalisa]

Going to get more ordered

It's too easy isn't it?  I'm researching 1st cousins 3 times removed  and I've found a couple who possibly died in childbirth and then I found another family where 2 of the sisters died in the same quarter of the same year (as twentysomethings so not babies).  Question is, do I spend money getting PDFs for such distant ancestors to satisfy my curiosity?

Why not? 
I sometimes order certificates of distant people because something about the person or the situation intrigues me.
I have occasionally ordered a certificate for a non-relative where that person has crossed paths with someone I'm interested in and I wanted to know a bit more.

Lisa

[LizzieW]

Lisalisa - the only why not is because I spend far too much on certs/PDF certs, I've 100s of them, although about 20 I got at half price from a distant relative in USA who had finished with them and they were my mum's siblings certs.

[Guy Etchells]

This may have been asked before so apologies if it has.

With these PDF certificates what do you actually get i.e.

I) A PDF of a proper certificate with all the details on it. or
II) A PDF just listing the details but without the layout and borders of a proper certificate.

Thank you.

See
http://anguline.co.uk/cert/uncertified.html

Cheers
Guy

[Blue70]

Got my latest one on the expected day with the e-mail telling me it was ready received same day. I've managed to locate deaths where the informants gave ages at death that were years out so it made it more difficult to find them in the death indexes. Using recently made available online cemetery records I was able to eliminate candidates that were clearly wrong and went with possibles despite the ages being way out. Success at last. 


Blue