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Headbanger Veron
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No! I'd be bankrupt! I only buy a certificate when I absolutely have to, and I make as sure as I possibly can that I have the index reference correct first. You can often work quite a lot out by making educated guesses and studying census info before you shell out your £7, even if there are quite a number of records which could be yours.
You can also work out a lot of things by studying census info in cunjunction with BMD index info, and putting two and two together from any other free sources - you may find yourself lacking only the actual date of an event rather than any of the more vital info, so you don't then have to buy the certificate unless you really want it.
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All census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukCurrently researching: ABRAHAMS (Essex/Woolwich), CARPENTER (Kent) CLEMENTS (London), CRADDOCK (Sheerness) HORTON (Birmingham) MUNCASTER (Whitehaven then Manchester, Scotland, Suffolk and Canada!) TANCOCK (Devon/Cornwall), WILSON (Edinburgh) among others..... |
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kerryb
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I agree with Veron, I too would be bankrupt if I bought every certificate I wanted. I just buy the ones that will give me a further step in my research or a clue.
I had a really sad one this week, the death of Martha Hall aged 36 from Typhus fever a week before her last child was baptised. I ordered to find out when she was born, I could not find a baptism for her, why? because I assumed she was the same age as her husband, she wasn't she was actually 16 years his junior.
Sometimes certs come in useful!
Kerry
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukSearching for my family - Baldwin - Sussex, Middlesex, Cork, Pilbeam - Sussex, Harmer - Sussex, Terry - Surrey, Kent, Rhoades - Lincs, Roffey - Surrey, Traies - Devon & Middlesex & many many more to be found on my website .... www.kerrysfamilyhistory.co.uk |
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kerryb
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I've only been to local records office twice but I actually found it a lot of fun searching through parish registers, some of what is written is quite funny and it is quite exciting when you find what you are looking for.
As Jane Horrocks said on WDYTYA, I felt like Miss Marple!
Kerry
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukSearching for my family - Baldwin - Sussex, Middlesex, Cork, Pilbeam - Sussex, Harmer - Sussex, Terry - Surrey, Kent, Rhoades - Lincs, Roffey - Surrey, Traies - Devon & Middlesex & many many more to be found on my website .... www.kerrysfamilyhistory.co.uk |
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Headbanger Veron
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Yes I agree with you Kerry, it's a real booster seeing the actual handwriting of your remote ancestor. I like playing detective too!
Veron
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All census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukCurrently researching: ABRAHAMS (Essex/Woolwich), CARPENTER (Kent) CLEMENTS (London), CRADDOCK (Sheerness) HORTON (Birmingham) MUNCASTER (Whitehaven then Manchester, Scotland, Suffolk and Canada!) TANCOCK (Devon/Cornwall), WILSON (Edinburgh) among others..... |
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MaryA
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If it's possible to search the Parish Registers even in more recent years when the GRO certificates are available, it has the added bonus of only costing 20p/30p for a photocopy and giving the same information as the certs.
Mary
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Census Information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukLunt (Wavertree/West Derby), Forshaw (West Derby), Richardson (Knowsley), Kent (Cheshire), Cain (Hertfordshire, London), Larkins (Bedfordshire, London), Nunn (London), Lenton, Hillyard (Bedfordshire), Parle, Lambert, Furlong, Wafer (Wexford) Special separate interest in Longford (Blackrock, Dublin) |
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scrattletrap
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I only get the ones I need to get the next lead, usually a birth cert that will give me the mothers maiden name, one day when I have the funds though I would like to get them all but if I have two and a half certs for each ancestor and about 100 ancestors at £7 a pop that works out as £1750.
Sharon
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carol8353
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Hi there br2az04
St Pancras church records would be at the LMA (London Metropolitan Archives)
http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/leisure_heritage/libraries_archives_museums_galleries/JAS/lma
They will do research by email or post-but of course they charge for it 
All the best
Carol
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Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukRogers, Rapkin, Phillips - Hammersmith/Fulham/Paddington areas Worth Bailey, Heapy, Burgess. All Macclesfield Cheshire Mockridge,West Monkton Somerset Jenner,Clapham Surrey Kendrick,Liverpool Wensley,Somerset Coleman and Mc Namara from Ennis, Co Clare, Ireland Blake and Maloney from Kilbaha Co Clare, Ireland |
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Sylviaann
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I have most of them but I did buy them gradually and one at a time. I did get some for birthday and Christmas presents. Once I gave everyone a laugh when I won a few pounds at Bingo and said I could now buy some death certificates. I didn't bother with death certificates until I had everything else. Deaths are much more difficult to find and it is more difficult to know if it's the right one. I have a few wronguns but only one wrong birth. I don't buy certifiates for siblings.
Sylviaann
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Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukNorfolk: Gooch, Loveday, Lake, Betts Suffolk: Gooch, Crosby, Turner Hampshire: Laws, Burrows Kent: Beer Jersey: Barette, de Gruchy East London: Middleton, Gower, O'Farrell, Smith, Weston |
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Lloydy
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I would love to have a certificate for every person in my Tree but I would be bankrupt 
Like some of the other Rootschatters, I only tend to buy a certificate if it will help break down a brick wall, or take me back a generation. I have been very lucky with my father's tree in that all his ancestors were born, married and died in the same welsh town. The search has been quite easy
Hope your certificates arrive soon 
Jan
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