To send via the internet

Jane · Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 10:01 am Post subject: To send via the internet

All the these were found on google by searching for - birth marriage death certificates england.

Please don't get ripped off - use your head and only use the offical site!!

* All prices are for standard delivery -

* ordered online unless otherwise stated

* All prices are for UK certificate unless otherwise stated.

http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/ - England and Wales only.
Full certificate with GRO reference number............................................................................£7
Full certificate without GRO reference number............................................................................£11.50
Full certificate with GRO reference number by Post/ phone/ fax..................................................................................£8.50

http://www.groireland.ie - Erie (Republic of Ireland)
Full certificate by Post/ Person .......................................................................€10.00

http://www.groni.gov.uk/index.htm - Northen Ireland
Full certificate without GRO reference number by Post/ phone/ fax/ Online/ person .......................................................... £11.00
Full certificate with GRO reference number by Post/ phone/ fax/ person ..................................................................... £5.50

Updated 8th August 2008 - only the official sites are left on here.

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Bez · Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 1:14 am Post subject:

The reference number is only required by the GRO. If you send to the Register office where the event was actually registered, they only want the year and the quarter, plus as many personal details as possible for purposes of identification.

This is the cheapest option, and a lot of them now will send al photocopy of the register page in the case of a marriage certificate. This is always a bonus because you can see their actual signature or, if they "made their mark", you can see what the mark actually was. (It wasn't always a cross)

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Jane · Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 9:06 am Post subject:

There are a few register offices who WON'T help. They are usually the larger ones ie London. They don't have the extra staff for the huge amount of requests they get

But applying to the GRO online costs the same £7 as long as you do know the full reference number.

Now there are sites with the GRO indexes on for free it is easier to find the reference number.

Note - if anyone wants a reference number looking up please ask me. As long as you know when the event occured I don't mind looking it up

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Dotty · Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 1:34 pm Post subject: certs

Hi Jane

I think you could make a few bob helping folk. But, that's up to you...

Last week I did a bit of surfing the net and found my g-grandparents marriage. Unfortunately, in my excitement I only wrote down the reference number and none of the other info about names, etc. I would like to get a photocopy of the actual entry but I guess that's not guaranteed. Are the numbers of the entries the only number of that kind... so with just that one numbeer the GRO would be able to issue a cert?

Dotty Question

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Bez · Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 2:03 pm Post subject:

I think it's how they find the correct page in the register - but they do appreciate a name as well.

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Dotty · Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 8:48 am Post subject: I've made a start...

Just to update and tell you I registered with the GRO on Saturday and ordered a marriage cert. It was £7.

Dotty

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Dotty · Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 8:45 am Post subject: certs from GRO

The GRO said I would receive my cert by 26th June but I got it on the 23rd...so not a bad service at all!

I would use them again,

Dotty

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SeaCopRimmer · Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 3:33 pm Post subject:

You were lucky to get your certificate early; I have one ordered and was advised it would be posted on 29th June - and I'm still waiting!

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Jane · Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 3:43 pm Post subject:

Might be worth a phone call to check all is okay. There may be a problem which can easily be sorted. They are usually on time - apart from when certain telly programmes are on but then there is a much longer wait.

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SeaCopRimmer · Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 1:34 pm Post subject:

I tried to ring yesterday - on the 'online ordering helpline' All I got was if you want ....... press 1, if you want.......... press 2, and so on; eventually ran out of options and it said "to return to main menu press hash" - so no helpline there!
Still no certificate today, so I might try their main switchboard today and see if anybody can help; have to confess it's unusual to have a problem with online ordering

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Dotty · Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 2:04 pm Post subject: oh heck

Well it's usually me that gets the bad luck...

Hope it arrives soon,

Dotty

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Dotty · Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 11:40 am Post subject: Answers on a postcard...

Hi, does anyone know whether Gladys got her missing cert? I PMd her but haven't had a reply. Was just wondering what happens if a cert goes missing.

Look forward to hearing from someone...

Dotty

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keithwwild · Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 22 Location: North Wales

If you can get the volume and page no from ancestry then I always use the official GRO ordering service. Orders can be placed on line with no sae's and old fashioned envelopes. Their service I have found has usually been only a few days. If the marriages are Southport and I guess most on this forum will be then the Registrar at Southport has always been helpful in clarifying details for me.

Recently a marriage cert for 1848 at the Independent Chapel came back from the GRO which was very difficult to read. The GRO confirmed that their "copy" was no better. Southport Registrar's office tried and eventually discovered that the cert was by a visiting registrar from Ormskirk and that the "original" would be at Preston since the marriage was not C of E. The Preston Registrar was just as helpful and in fact offered to swap a copy of their "original" provided I sent them the one I received from the GRO.

That's sevice

Dotty · Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 4:22 pm Post subject: Thanks for that...

Thanks for the update...it's been a while since I sent for a cert. I must knuckle down to it! Shocked

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André · Joined: 11 Mar 2007 Posts: 48 Location: Amsterdam

I've had a number of certificates ordered by internet that went "missing" in the post (or in the GRO office?). Shocked

The GRO office in Southport would however always send me a very polite apology and send me a duplicate. In all cases the original certificate would then arrive later, so I now have several doubles.

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