Need B & M cert mid 1900's help.....

[justevi]

Isn't it the case that you can only get the certificate in England if you provide the exact reference? OK that costs £8 in Scotland, - the "extra" £5 in Scotland is for a search by GROS over a period of 5 years in all districts for a matching record, - I wasn't aware that GRO provided such a service?. Doesn't sound a bad deal to me if you can't provide the exact reference in the first instance, as is required for England and Wales

Not quite, if you know reg district and rough year of birth you can also order from the reg office where birth etc was registered. They will also usually check a couple of years either way for you. I have actually phoned (and emailed)a few to have details confirmed and they will usually do that for you but wont give out any information. We can also go into any records office country wide and search fiche free of charge for all England & Wales so getting the ref isnt a big problem anyway.
Plus of course there is always FreeBMD, Ancestry and 1837online.
If you order a cert from GRO online you can specify parents names etc
and they refund part of your £7 if its not a match.
http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certi ... efault.asp

BTW, the standard AGRA professional research rate in England is £15/hour, and the standard ASRGA rate in Scotland is £12/hour. Depending on the information that you have, then it could well take only 15 mins to find the record of interest..............

Wow, would have expected more, that is something well worth considering, even if I dont know what initials stand for LOL

Thanks again!

[DavidWW]

Just to make it clear what the differences are in Scotland.

A 5 year search carried out by GROS covers the whole of Scotland.

On line at www.ScotlandsPeople.gov.uk the indexed and digisitised images can be consulted on line, on a pay-per-view basis for births to 1904, marriages to 1929 and deaths to 1954, - no need to pay £7 for a certified extract. The on-line cost is considerably less.

On a personal visit to New Register House in Edingurgh, - £17 for a full day, and £10 for a half day from 1:00 pm , the indexes up to the present day can be consulted, and as many digisitised register images as you can view in the day looked at, apart from those in the last year or two which haven't yet been pocessed, - microfilmed and/or digitised. Outside the closure periods outlined above, copies of the register entries are available at 50p.

On many occasions I've personally looked at the images of several hundred register entries in less than a day. - I wonder how much that would cost south of the Border?, never mind the time that it would take ?!

There are an increasing number of locations around Scotland, - Glasgow and Dundee, with Aberdeen, Selkirk, and north Lanarkshire already planned, where similar facilities will be available.

David

[justevi]

I agree once scotlandspeople kicks in Scottish research is great, I have used it for my own ancestors. Being able to print off the older certificates is brilliant. It would just be nice to be able to search more recent indexes online. In England we cant actually view the registers at all. Suppose its swings & roundabouts.
I wouldnt mind at all paying the price for her grandparents MC - if I had some idea when it was LOL I really must try to arrange a trip to Edinburgh, sounds like a genealogists paradise!
Thanks for all the info David, I have learned a lot!

Joan

[Margaret]

Hello Just Evi
Not sure if this will help you or not, but here are two aussie transcribers that will check British certificates and the prices are quite reasonable ( I used them till Scotlands People came online)

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[justevi]

Thanks for those links Margaret, they are worth hanging onto for our future research. Thanks to Davids help we have now got what we need for the moment to start researching on scotlandspeople. I cant believe what I have learned in just a few days!

Joan