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Certs finally arrived after 3 weeks and they are t
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Val wish I'd never started | Report | 18 Jun 2006 00:00 |
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Sharon isnt it a shame we cannot just ring the GRO and ask them to check the details for us before they take the money, I know some do but some are very unhelpful. |
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Gill1957 | Report | 19 Jun 2006 09:35 |
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have just got my first cert. thru - pleased to say mine was correct one - needed to confirm which Louisa was my Gt. Grandmother - I notice that you are talking about checking refs. and refunds if wrong certs ordered???!!! Can someone explain about this for me? thanks Gill |
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Heather | Report | 19 Jun 2006 09:53 |
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Hi, well when you order through the GRO site you can ask for a check on points - like if you order a marriage cert and def know the father of the groom is called Alexander,(youve seen it on the census as that) you can specify that as a checking point.. They check if the father is shown as Alexander, and if not, they dont send the cert and only deduct £4 from your credit card saving you 3 quid. Trouble is, sometimes this could lose you a correct certificate when you have the wrong info. Say dad is really Fred but likes the name Alex and uses that in every day circumstances?? For example, as I mentioned, I sent off for a Birth Certificate for an Ellen Jenkins, (father Thomas mother Ellen). I got the certificate - aaargh, mother shown as Harriett. Bunged it to one side then went back over the information and now that I had 'Harriet's' maiden name, Hutton, traced her backwards. And erm, yes her name was indeed Harriet not Ellen and she was from the right village in Berkshire but living in London and yes she would have been near Windsor when Thomas Jenkins was a guard stationed at Windsor Barracks. I then found and sent for their marriage cert - Thomas Jenkins to Harriet Hutton. So, if I had specified I only wanted the birth cert if it had 'Ellen' as mum I would never have traced Harriets line at all. Not to mention trawling for ever for a marriage between a Thomas Jenkins and a non existent Ellen. |
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Gill1957 | Report | 19 Jun 2006 12:10 |
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Hi - thanks Heather, now understand but I take your point, we are normally ordering the certs. to clarify a maiden name or such like - have had same thing on another set of family, looked forever for a George only to discover him on the 1841 cencus when I joined Ancestry that he was a John!!! but suspect his father was a John so guess he liked George - so I think I would rather spend the £7 and keep to 1 side. regards Gill |
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