Genealogy Chat

hi everyone i ordered a certificate tonight and put in a reference check to make sure that the details were correct they charged £3s extra to check the details plus £7 so that was £10 altogether what i would like to know does that mean that the details are correct that i added or are they charging that amount whether correct or not please can someone answer my question thankyou kerry ann

Kerry, I paid the extra £3 recently because I couldn't decide which birth certificte would be the right one. For the extra £3 they matched the right one as I gave them the names of this relative's parents. By paying the extra, it meant I wasn't sent the wrong cert . Hope this helps

say you have a John Smith. You know his father is Alphonso, so you can order a birth cert for JOHN SMITH witha ref with the checking point fathers name= Alphonso If the ref you give for the birth ie Name: John Smith Year of Registration: 1907 Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec District: Southampton County: Hampshire Volume: 2c Page: 18 Doesnt have father named a Alphonso , they will not send it, and return part of you £7

hi teresa and jess thankyou for your help i get what you both mean idid put in parents names so hopfully i will get the right one thanks again kerry ann

As its a while since I ordered a cert from the GRO, has something changed then? I usually order, with say, a checking point of 'Father must be John Smith'. If father IS John Smith, I get cert and they charge £7. If it isnt John Smith, I dont get the cert and they charge £3. I have only been charged £10, where I give TWO cert numbers and ask for the one where father is John Smith. Has it all changed, then? OC

As with Olde Crone I have found that either a) you get your cert for £7 or b) you get charged £3 for no cert if you put in a checking point that doesn't match what's on the cert. nell

hi old crone, am not sure i havnt done reference checking point before but i did on this ocasion because i wasnt sure if the details were correct so i did the ref check first and they put up the details like they do usually and charged me the extra £3s as well as the £7 and everthing i did was done correctly perhaps they are now charging extra for that service? kerry ann

From the site, costs: Fees England and Wales GRO Reference Supplied Full Certificate of birth marriage and death (standard service): £7.00 each Full Certificate of birth marriage and death (priority service): £23.00 each Standard service certificates will be despatched within 4 days (excluding weekends and bank holidays). Priority service certificates will be despatched on the next day (excluding weekends and bank holidays). Additional references relating to the same application can be checked at a cost of £3.00 each. Where an incorrect GRO reference is supplied a search fee will be charged and the balance refunded to the card details provided. The following search fee charges apply: Standard search fee: £3.00 Priority search fee: £19.00 GRO Reference Not Supplied Full Certificate of birth, marriage and death (standard service): £10.00 each Full Certificate of birth, marriage and death (priority service): £26.00 each The fee includes a search of the GRO indexes for the entry required. General Register Office staff will carry out this search. Standard service certificates will be despatched within 15 days (excluding weekends and bank holidays). Priority service certificates will be despatched on the next day (excluding weekends and bank holidays). Where an entry cannot be located agreeing with the particulars supplied a search fee will be charged and the balance refunded to the card details provided. The following search fee charges apply: Standard search fee: £4.50 Priority search fee: £20.50

Ah, wait a minute....something is coming back to me....there are two places at which you can put in a check point I think - one is free (fathers name - John Smith) and another one, later on where you can request additional checks which I think you pay for ...am I right? OC