Genealogy Chat

OK.....just doing my accounts. Certs held = 298 which should equal £2,086 (ouch!) Let's see if I can make that better....................... 34 = certs already held by immediate family when I began searching 57 = certs given to me by other researchers 8 = copied at the County Record office for a few pence 99 = (Total) virtually free 199 paid for = £1,393 but some of those would be a lot less than £7 as they were bought a long time ago! Hmmmmmmmmmm......................it's still fairly ouch!! Have never bought a wrong one, though! Merry

34 Certs in the past 6 months. 17 Birth 15 Marriage 2 Death --------------------------- Ordered up another 2 Birth certs from GRO last night - due 21st August. These 2 are definately correct !

Ive got 6 coming hopefully on Tues...can't wait, theyre quite important ones. Hubby thinks it's hilarious, waiting for death certs...

I hadn't even thought about how many I had.I only started my tree in Feb this year and ordered a few to start.works out I have 21 (prefer not to count money) 2 I ordered by priority.Then stupid things like sorting out a mortgage and holidays got in the way. I will be back to ordering at the end of this month :) Linda

I'd rather not say! I admire all those people who have confessed! Bernie

Mandy, thats a great site. You could maybe post on the Records board too, to let everyone know.

http://bmd-cert-exch-site(.)ourwardfamily(.)com/ Try this site to search for and relieve yourself of wanted/unwanted certificates. I saw it listed on GR tips the other day and thought it would be useful sometime!

It looks like we all just might have that disease... Mo

Oh My I dare'nt even go add mine all up...I know it will be in excess of 200.... That's without all the marriages that I have only paid 40p for..from the records office... Oh Heck.. Got 24 printout's for marriages for Hubbys tree when I was Durham Records Office last week too.... Makes me wonder what the actual total is with everything on..with Will's Etc.. Wow.. I not counting though.. *************************************************************************** GENEALOGY POX Very Contagious to adults Symptoms A continual complaint as to the need for names, dates and places. Patient has a blank expression, often deaf to spouse and children. Has no taste for work of any kind except feverishly looking through records at libraries and courthouses. Has compulsion to write letters, swears at the mailman when he doesn't leave mail. Frequents strange places such as cemeteries, ruins and remote desolate areas. Makes secret night calls, hides phone bill from spouse. Mumbles to self and has a far away look in eyes. No known cure Treatment Medication is useless, disease is not fatal but gets progressively worse. Patient should attend genealogy meetings, subscribe to a magazine, and be given a quiet corner in the house where they can be alone. The usual nature of this disease is that the sicker the patient the more they enjoy it. Author Unknown Mo

I was waiting for the ONS to have a summer sale; Buy One Get One Free. Didn't happen...

Ok I've been forced to declare this by my friend Monica. Including the three certs on order I have 70 which works out to be £490, he spends just as much on fags anyway so why shouldn't I have a bit of pleasure ha ha. jenny

Do you know if there is an.....Certificate anon we could all sign up to??????? Kathlyn

Lol :)

Actually, It's quite sad really - I don't think my husband would mind if I ordered 20 a week - It's not so much the money as the time I put into this which he can't understand. I am on here first thing in the morming, and would be until last thing at night. - I try to look as if I do things in the house, but the 'cobwebs' are growing. !! He knows that the minute he goes out - I am on here - 'looking for dead people!!' , even though I try to pretend I'm not. It IS an addiction, but I LOVE it !! - To he** with the expense. !! Dea x

ooh, I really don't feel so bad now after reading this thread. have only ordered 15 in the last four months. I shall tell OH, GR is a like a club, minimum order of 4 certs a month to stay on boards!!!

Oh poor Daniel - 54! You must put the details of anyone you are looking for on here so that the super sleuths can narrow it right down and you dont waste any more on the wrong ones. I really dont know how many I have. I know I have a full cert album 2 to a folder and Ive bought 20 new folders earlier this year. But I darent count them. But as everyone said, other women would be having their hair done every week at £15 a go - I get mine done perhaps 4 times a year - albeit at about £55 a go - so I reckon hubby is quids in. Rebekkah, thing is, the longer you are at this, the less and less available certs become. Sometimes I mooch through my tree praying Ill find an opening for buying a cert to get me some further info but it doesnt seem to happen nowdays. Today I did another 4 parishes looking for my GGPx4 in Norfolk and STILL no sign of them before a Settlement cert in 1760 - I could scream.

Hi all I have just counted all mine,i have got 158 certs to the cost of SHOCK HORROR £1,106 pounds if my hubby finds out i'm DEAD I am still waiting for 4 more to come. Ann

32 Certs in the past 6 months. 15 Birth 15 Marriage 2 Death Of that little lot, 5 were incorrect. 3 from the Welsh Williams side of the family !! 1 was due to me early on not checking the facts and going on a guess. And the last one was down to an either/or choice..........I got the wrong one first !

A lot of us 'downtrodden researchers' have an unjustified sense of guilt...

me again, well, luckily I havent got any wrong ones!! but having said that now, i'll bet that i do get a few, (something to do with sods law) LOL, maybe a re-jig of honeys thread, alpabetically would make it easier??, oh, ey up, dont want Glen thinking I'm pilfering his ideas LOL Julie