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The Common Room / Re: TIRED OF WAITING FOR YOUR CERTIFICATES ?
« on: Thursday 13 January 05 14:06 GMT (UK) »
I started using the GRO website to order my certificates about 1.5 years ago. I used to try to order them from the local register offices, but sometimes got letters back saying that they couldn't find the entry. No more trying to decide which office to send the request to.
Besides, I think it's nice to have a photocopy of the original entry rather than those modern transcriptions written in big girlie-letters - not the elegant penmanship of old dead people.
Transcriptions = Possible errors.
Also, the strange shaped marriage certificates that the local offices provide are difficult to photocopy/scan and have to be folded for storage in protective A4 sleeves.
Oh yes, on the subject of photocopying; does anyone take any notice of the copyrights we are asked to sign after receiving copies from records offices? Who owns the information on these records? Surely, as living descendants of these people, we are the rightful owners.
Still awaiting my cert. Come on let his middle name be Arthur...please!
Besides, I think it's nice to have a photocopy of the original entry rather than those modern transcriptions written in big girlie-letters - not the elegant penmanship of old dead people.
Transcriptions = Possible errors.
Also, the strange shaped marriage certificates that the local offices provide are difficult to photocopy/scan and have to be folded for storage in protective A4 sleeves.
Oh yes, on the subject of photocopying; does anyone take any notice of the copyrights we are asked to sign after receiving copies from records offices? Who owns the information on these records? Surely, as living descendants of these people, we are the rightful owners.
Still awaiting my cert. Come on let his middle name be Arthur...please!