Genealogy Chat

thanks gwyn, cant wait for mine , i completely missed this one out last time x

Just to say that GRO are a little bit ahead of themselves and my cert. arrived this morning, although the expected dispatch date was tomorrow.

Gwyn

Lol secret red x x, very happily married and kids all doing very well, hoping for some health improvements like millions but happy, how are you have you been to anymore meets, i hope to actually get to some this year. xx

I've got no excuse, I'm not on meds and often confuse myself and others lol Hope you're all ok.

yes thanks squirel, your right , hope peolpe understand im on a lot of meds and very often confuse myself let alone others, so thanks again xxxx :-D

Hi Inspector, I posted something similar and then deleted as I think Lorraine is referring to the GRO in Southport and not Liverpool record office itself.

I didn't know how long Liverpool are taking now but when I've used them in the past they were painfully slow. (you know what it's like when you're waiting for a cert with crucial info lol)

I remember being astonished when the envelope I opened with a certificate in didn't contain the Liverpool certificates that I'd sent off weeks and weeks before but a different certificate that I'd only sent off a few days before.

Liverpool Register Office charge £9.00 plus SAE or 50p postage if no SAE.

However the really bad news is that Certs for family history purposes are currently taking 4 - 6 weeks.....!

Liverpool have always treated FH certs as lower priority but I gather the delay has worsened as they are currently working from temporary premises whilst the Central Library and Archives Office at William Brown St, is undergoing major refurbishment.

Lancashire charge £9.00 per cert, but you have to pay postage and include SAE.........so works out more expensive than the GRO, where £9.25 includes postage

The GRO is by far the best option

thanks joy xx

first one sent off , will be looking for the postman every day xx

The cost went up, Lorraine, not long ago from £7.00 to £9.25. In fact it was in April 2010, as can be seen here:
http://www.certificate-exchange.co.uk/blog/2010/03/price-changes-for-ordering-bmd-certificates/

thankyou so much MGNV QYWN XXXX, will get on with that one, i missed this last time round, i had found william henry to be dead in ww1, but i have also seen a letter confirming the death WH PURVIS, TO ANNIE PURVIS nee BURNELL , so this hopefully will clarify a few things x :-D

Durham Eastern
The Registrar
York Road
Acre Rigg
Peterlee
Co Durham SR8 2DP
UK
Telephone: 0191 586 6147 (In UK), +44 191 586 6147 (Outside UK)

Check out their web site via:
http://www.northeastbmd.org.uk/

£9.25 is as cheap as you will find it online.

I have known some local offices to charge £9, but not many....and then some need you to send a s.a.e. for the cert to be posted back to you, so that must all be considered.

Gwyn

yjanks jax and gwyn, 2 pound dearer not bad though especially when it helps. xx :-D

I ordered a cert. yesterday evening on the GRO site posted by jax.

Dispatch date was given as 19 January.

Gwyn

why not use

http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/

£9.25 per cert

taking to process certificates, its been a couple of years since i used them, i used to feel the local one to where the occassion happend was quicker, but im not sure which registrar office 1a Durham east is seems a few come up in the search. thankyoux