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    Has anyone obtained a death certificate through ancestry. Their magazine says that they are £19.99. I wondered if this compares favourably with going direct to the registry office of the area concerned.

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    No, you should NEVER pay more then £7 for a cert from either the GRO or the local Register Office where the BMD was registered.




    Last edited by JayG; 12-02-10, 17:25. Reason: added link for LRO
    Jay

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    • #3
      Please, please do NOT use ancestry to purchase certificates, they are blatant rip offs, as Jay has said they should only cost £7 from the GRO at southport.



      or the other site that Jay has given for local certs
      Julie
      They're coming to take me away haha hee hee..........

      .......I find dead people

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      • #4
        This is a useful site for some of the local districts' online databases:
        UKBMD Births, Marriages and Deaths Indexes Online. Local BMD Indexes, Family History, Baptisms, Marriages, Burials, Monumental Inscriptions, Civil Registration, GRO Indexes, BMD, BDM, UK 1841 to 1911 censuses. Who Do You Think You Are?

        - see the "Local BMD" link in the left-hand menu.

        Some of them allow online-ordering (not always as low as £7 - so check, first!). Some of them allow you to use their system to print of a pre-populated application form, so that you need only to sign it off and post it with the payment. You just need to be aware of the fact that the local BMD records are usually one transcription nearer the original than are the GRO records. This can mean that there are records which never got as far as GRO, too. GRO references are not useful to the local offices, except, perhaps, for the year/quarter information which can narrow down their searches: their records are usually in one-year blocks - or bigger, occasionally.

        Some of the local offices are more flexible about checking-terms, too. If you want to be sure that you get only results with "William" as father, say, with local offices, they may be willing to spot that Will(ie/y)/Bill(ie/y) could be the same person, where GRO will usually be very exact.

        Christine
        Researching: BENNETT (Leics/Birmingham-ish) - incl. Leonard BENNETT in Detroit & Florida ; WARR/WOR, STRATFORD & GARDNER/GARNAR (Oxon); CHRISTMAS, RUSSELL, PAFOOT/PAFFORD (Hants); BIGWOOD, HAYLER/HAILOR (Sussex); LANCASTER (Beds, Berks, Wilts) - plus - COCKS (Spitalfields, Liverpool, Plymouth); RUSE/ROWSE, TREMEER, WADLIN(G)/WADLETON (Devonport, E Cornwall); GOULD (S Devon); CHAPMAN, HALL/HOLE, HORN (N Devon); BARRON, SCANTLEBURY (Mevagissey)...

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        • #5
          As the others have said, certificates only cost £7 from the GRO. If you pay more than this you are just putting money in someone else's pocket - they can only get the certs from the GRO the same as you do and it will take longer!

          OC

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          • #6
            If you order from the local register office, not only are you getting what the registrar actually wrote at the time (sometimes if you are lucky you literally get just that) but you are also helping to preserve a local service that may be under threat. And very occasionally the GRO index or certificate has an error (I have one where the surname was Lydiard but the GRO index has Sydiard).
            Uncle John - Passed away March 2020

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