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An Olde Crone

An Olde Crone Report 31 Oct 2006 11:20

Just to clarify: RECORDS OFFICES contain much information, in the way of Parish Registers etc, and usually a full copy of the GRO bmd INDEX. They do not keep copies of Birth, Marriage and Death Certificates, which are the property of the General Registrar. REGISTRY OFFICES keep copies of Birth Marriage and Death Certificates. The Public cannot look at these without purchasing the relevant certificate and generally speaking, Register Offices do not even have an index which you can look at to search. The only exception to this is marriages, as outlined above - if the couple married in a Church, then the Record Office will have copies of the Church Register and you can get a photcopy done for the usual few pence. OC

Jeanette

Jeanette Report 31 Oct 2006 01:16

Thanks to all for your replies. Hopefully i will get something that will help me. If i can get a couple of certs. that will give me parents names that will be something. Jeanette

Heather

Heather Report 31 Oct 2006 00:32

At the records office you will find parish registers which have baptisms, marriages and burials. The marriages after 1837 have the same details as marriage certs so you might be able to get a print out of those. Heather

Janet in Yorkshire

Janet in Yorkshire Report 31 Oct 2006 00:32

I'm afraid not. The only way you can look at civil reg certs in England is by buying copies, either from the GRO or the local offices. The one exception is marriages, if they took place in a place of worship. The duplicate registers for these are deposited at the county record offices, but you have to search each church or chapel individually - there is no central index which you can pull them up from. If these are at the record office on film, you have free access to them and can copy out the entries or print them off. If the marriage took place in a registry office, however, there will be no duplicate register at the record office. You can, of course, look at pre 1837 PR for free. Jay

Danuella

Danuella Report 31 Oct 2006 00:26

Hi Jeanette,it doesn't at my local office i have to order the certs,but i'm down in Suffolk xx

Jeanette

Jeanette Report 31 Oct 2006 00:06

I am going to Newcastle to do some research can anyone please tell me if when you search in the records office you get a copy of a cert. In the Scottish one you search and when you have found the right one you can click print and collect them when you are finished you pay 50 pence for each copy. Does it work like that on the English ones. Jeanette.