Genealogy Chat

Can someone please help and save me spending more unnecessary money. I want to order a birth certificate online from 1896, so have tried on the family history site but need a gro number? To try and get this I have bought units on 1837 online as recommended in my WDYTYA book, but no success. Can anyone point me in the right direction, because I seem to be chasing my tail but never catching it! ;0)) Julie

If you post the name and approcimate date and location, I'll have a look for you

Hey, you can look at all the index on ancestry free of charge at moment!! Tell us who you are looking for?

If you're saying you need the GRO ref to order online from GRO - yes - just as you'd need the local ref to order from a local RO online. If you haven't found it - have you looked only in the expected quarter? or have you looked a bit either side? People lied about their ages for all sorts of reasons (my g-g-mother wanted to be not quite so much older than her 20-yr-old husband when they married, and seems to have maintained the fiction of being about 6 years younger than actual thereafter; others wanted to be old enough to marry without parental consent). Christine

Thanks to you all here is the info:- Fred Cross born Jan-March 1896 at Caistor Norfolk :0)) truly

Volume 7a Page 630

sorry caistor Lincs not Norfolk

Cross, Fred Caistor 7a 630 Yoy need to put the registration district as: Caistor The Volume as : 7a Page as: 630 the volume and page are the GRO number The site address for ordering online is below, each certificate costs £7. http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificate/index.asp#0 Caistor Created 1st July 1837. Sub-districts : Caistor; Great Grimsby; Market Rasen GRO volumes : XIV (1837-51); 7a (1852-1930). Registers now divided between Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire districts.

Christine Thanks I am amazed it was there all the time! I found that myself but did not realise it was what I needed. Well they say you learn something new every day. Good job have friends on gr who care enough to help. Truly xx :0))

Lunar has given you the detailed info you'd need. Christine

Hi Have got so far but now asking for exact dob?? Sorry to be a pain but can you help again

Lunar Had a bit of flack when first started on gr community boards. So now nervous but keen lol :0))

Do you think I should just leave exact dob bit blank ! Truly :0))

ok all done now just got to wait for postie Thanks a million truly :0))

Julie If your using the GRO website, you don't need the DoB. You only need to put in the information if there is a red star in the line of text anything else is a bonus and used as a check to confirm that is the certificate you want. You should only need to put in the name, Quarter, District name, Volume Number, Page Number.

I guess you figured it out, but just to tell you. With the exception of relatively recent registrations, all you need to order a birth, marriage, or death certificate is: First name Surname Year and quarter of registration District Volume Page HTH.

Will learn (hopefully) Lunar :0))

Thanks Andrew, will know for the future, although seem to be spending a lot of time in the past!!! Hubby seems pleased of the peace and quiet tho, just a click of keys to disturb silence. lol :0))

You do need to make sure you've ticked the button which says you know the ref - otherwise it can lead you down a whole lot of questions you don't need - and you end being charged £11.50 Christine

Whooooops. Did see the bit about the reference but carried on regardless. So thick but what shuould I have done? :0{