Buying certificates and economical searches
Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 6:24 pm
I thought it might help to post up here where to get birth, marriage or death certificates, and how much to expect to pay for the service from the various sources. I know that a lot of "service provider" websites are out there these days, some of which pretend to be parallel services to government sites when actually they are at best a conduit, at worst a complete scam. (DVLA copy sites are a particular problem.)
So here goes:
http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/ is the page to go to if you want to set up an account to order General Register Office certificates online. The FAQ is here https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/cert ... teProblems and provides quite a lot of very good information about the certificates available, what to expect to find on them, and how to interpret some of the information they give.
I know you can order them through Ancestry as well, but I think they cost more on there.
So here goes:
http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/ is the page to go to if you want to set up an account to order General Register Office certificates online. The FAQ is here https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/cert ... teProblems and provides quite a lot of very good information about the certificates available, what to expect to find on them, and how to interpret some of the information they give.
I know you can order them through Ancestry as well, but I think they cost more on there.