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Angie

Angie Report 7 Jan 2009 09:28

Hi, I'm new to this and am finding the costs involved quite a bit, especially living in NZ and ordering from the UK.
Any suggestions on how to minimise this while retaining the accuracy of my tree?
Cheers,
Angie

Porkie_Pie

Porkie_Pie Report 7 Jan 2009 10:11

Try to use as many free sites as possible, here are a couple

http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp

http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl

http://www.nebmd.co.uk/

http://freecen.rootsweb.com/

also try Google search's for family members and place names, I google everything just in case

Roy

Thelma

Thelma Report 7 Jan 2009 10:52

I started out buying every certificate until I had two births which were not registered.I still managed to research back by using the census.
I now only buy certificates as a last resort.

MargaretM

MargaretM Report 7 Jan 2009 11:36

You make it sound as if you're paying more because you're in NZ. If certificates are ordered from GRO it should be tha same as what they pay in England. I'm in Canada and only pay 7 pounds. As for Ancestry. UK, it's cheaper because we don't have to pay VAT.

Researching:
Great grandmother Dorothy Bean nee Abbott (1858-1908)

Jill 2011 (aka Warrior Princess of Cilla!)

Jill 2011 (aka Warrior Princess of Cilla!) Report 7 Jan 2009 13:28

Nag a relation to join in with the researching - that could halve the costs.

I share info quite happily with one of my cousin's daughters. We take it in turns to purchase certs and other info and copy them to each other. (I don't feel that breaches copyright as we are researching the same grandfather/great grandfather!)

Jill

Researching:
London: Faber, Haysey, Spicer ...

cannienannie

cannienannie Report 7 Jan 2009 14:35

hi i found that ,a lot of libraries,,in the areas that you are researching, have parish records, of B---M---D certificates, so that they will print them of for you, some charge a fee, others dont, it dos,nt cost you £7 for every certificate, joyce

MargaretM

MargaretM Report 7 Jan 2009 15:51

Are you sure about that, Joyce? I didn't think there was any way of accessing a certificate other than buying it, and certainly not from a library.

Researching:
Great grandmother Dorothy Bean nee Abbott (1858-1908)

KathleenBell

KathleenBell Report 7 Jan 2009 15:54

If you know which church a marriage took place in you can sometimes get a copy of the parish register which will give you the same information as a marriage certificate, but you can't do this for birth certificates.

You can get a copy of a baptism from parish records but this doesn't give you the same information.

You can also get a copy of a burial record from parish records, but again this doesn't give you the same information as a death certificate.

Kath. x