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From UKBMD site
Prices will rise on 1st April 2012 to £10.00 for certificates ordered from your local register office.
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No, certainly not
It's the very useful site where you can find some of the County BMD info, including links to OPC's
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http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/local_bmd is a portal with links to online indexes from local rego offices.
Even if you've looked up a BMD ref in the GRO index, it's worth checking a local index.
Since the registers are organized differently, the local ref is different.
They don't always tell you what the ref is - sometimes it's on the pre-printed forms.
Even when they do tell, they don't always decode it, but a local ref should give which subdistrict register contains the birth/death,
or which church register contains the marr. Marrs are usually indexed by entry #, so one knows who wed whom.
Also, extra info might appear, like the mum's MS on births pre-1911q3, age of death pre-1866q1.
Here's a selection of look ups in local indexes:
North Tyneside
YOUNGER, Ann
Year of Birth: 1844
Register Book, Entry Number: E4, 413
ATKINSON, William
Marriage date: 1863
Father's Surname: ATKINSON
Register Book, Entry Number: W 8, 79
YOUNGER, Elizabeth
Marriage date: 1863
Father's Surname: KNOX
Register Book, Entry Number: W 8, 79
KNOX, Elizabeth
Marriage date: 1863
Father's Surname: KNOX
Register Book, Entry Number: W 8, 79
Newcastle
1850 - ROBSON William
Register No./Entry No.
BYK11/470
[One is left to guess rego BYK is the Byker subdistrict rego]
1853 ROBSON William
1853 ALLEN Mary A
Marriage venue - Church unknown
Register No./Entry No.
RO13/2
[One is left to guess rego RO is the registrar's own rego, used for rego office marrs, and (pre-1898) non-conformist marrs that the registrar had to attend]
1853 TALINTYRE Hannah
1853 ROBSON John
Marriage venue - Cathedral of St Nicholas
Register No./Entry No.
ECA4/475
Sunderland
Marr
CHICKEN Ann 1852
RAINE William 1852
South Tyneside
William CHICKEN
Spouse: Mary WILKINSON
Register: C0008
Entry: 405
Date: 07/12/1841
http://www.southtyneside.info/article/10778/Marriage-indexes shows rego C0008 is for St Paul, Jarrow
Tower Hamlets
births - results for SILK
1841 Charles S&W3/393//
[Seeing http://www.thbmd.co.uk/history.php I guess S&W is Shadwell & Wapping]
Wigan & Leigh
Lancashire Birth indexes for the years: 1838
Surname Forename(s) Sub-District Registers At Mother's Maiden Name Reference
MCCANN Michael Wigan Wigan & Leigh ASPINALL WIG/3/277
Lancashire Death indexes for the years: 1838
Surname Forename(s) Age Sub-District Registers At Reference
MCCANN Michael 0 Wigan Wigan & Leigh WIG/2/397
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