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DON'T GET RIPPED OFF..............

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MR_MAGOO

MR_MAGOO Report 11 Mar 2012 17:13

A BMD certificate is currently £9.25 from the GRO.

Don't go to any of the companies that offer to get them for you. They will charge you upto three times the GRO price.

An article from a Familytree mag has said that a company charged £74.99 for a for a cert that would have cost £23.40 from the GRO (that's for the priority service).

www.directgov.gov.uk/gro

RutlandBelle

RutlandBelle Report 11 Mar 2012 17:24

How true. A young friend of mine age 14 saved her birthday money to buy a certificate that cost her £25 instead of the GRO price. I have since made it up to her by buying another cert for her as I didn't want here to be deterred from doing family history and also by explaining how to get certs from the GRO.

Researching:
Please use the "ADD YOUR REPLY" box below to reply. Please DO NOT click on my username and send a private message (unless info is about living people or otherwise sensitive). Thank you.

GlitterBaby

GlitterBaby Report 11 Mar 2012 17:30

Do not purchase from Ancestry

Standard delivery of up to 16 working days is £22.99
Express of 6 working days is £39.99

Researching:
PLEASE DO NOT: send me information concerning your thread on the board as it should be posted on your request where all members can see it. PLEASE DO NOT: ask me for help with lookups as they should be placed on the boards to get the best possible result. PLEASE DO NOT: open your tree just because I have posted information on your thread as I will not be related. THANK YOU. Researching Carter, Cass and Walker in England. Researching Caven, McKill, Sutherland and Will in Scotland.

MR_MAGOO

MR_MAGOO Report 11 Mar 2012 17:32

If you happen to have a County Record Office nearby you can get a copy of the marriage from the Parish Register as it is the original copy. The copy from the GRO is a copy of the parish register. That will only cost you probably less than a £1.