Genealogy Chat

I''ve just learnt that Sheffield Archives allow you to view microfiched records and take a photo for free, or a photocopy for 20p. If not on microfiche you can do the same with the actual registers.

Margaret

If you read the Tips for new members you would have the details for ordering plus other basic stuff.

Ill nudge it up.

Just one word of warning


Never EVER pay more than £7 (GRO) or £7 + postage (some UK record offices)


There are some sites offering to get certificates for you ........ and they are charging as much as £25 if not more. Ancestry offers to get certificates ...... but they charge more than £7



sylvia

You can do it via the General Records Office:

http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/ (£7 per certificate if you have the page and volume references)

or some local register offices do supply certificates (ie. local to the area you're after - so if I was getting my grandma's birth certificate, I would apply to Newark, not my nearest register office, because she was registered in that district) but not all do.

Just to add to here..

How would we go about buying these certificates?
I've not seen the option to purchase them on here.

Thanks.

thank you everyone, thats been a great help.

BUT you cannot see any real detail on a birth etc unless you buy the actual certificate


you cannot see the actual date of the event ..... just the quarter of the year in which it occurred/

you cannot see the names of the parents, mother's maiden name (on a birth certificate), where the child was born or the marriage occurred, etc etc

in fact this is all you can see for a birth online (from ancestry)


Name: H***** S*****
Year of Registration: 1903
Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
District: Oldham
County: Greater Manchester, Lancashire
Volume: 8d
Page: 632 (click to see others on page)


I would have to buy the certificate to see any more information




Each certificate costs £7



sylvia

Parish records can be searched free at records offices. Civil registrations of births, marriages and deaths from July quarter 1837 onwards can be searched free on free BMD and other sites and on fiche / film at records offices, some main libraries and the public records office, but the actual birth certificate cannot be seen there.

You can't "look at" birth certificates - you have to buy them. If you go to a county records office you can sometimes look at the parish registers for marriages and baptisms (but it depends on what year it is for).

Kath. x

Does it cost anything to go and have a look at birth/marriage certificates to obtain information from them?
Sorry novice!
thanks.