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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!

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The Common Room / Re: TIRED OF WAITING FOR YOUR CERTIFICATES ?
« on: Thursday 13 January 05 11:03 GMT (UK)  »
Yeah. I ordered a certificate before Christmas, and I'm still waiting! This time last year I would have expected it to arrive within 7 days.

I blame it on the masses of new enthusiasts who have begun participating in our elite sport  - all of that running around graveyards, villages and records centres makes it a sport for me!

Even with this added inconvenience, I think that genealogy and family history should be made compulsory for all children. In fact, I think that young people should be required to demonstrate adequate knowledge of at least one line of their ancestors, going back 4 generations or more, before being issued a National Insurance number or a drivers license. Why? Don't know, but it seems a good idea.

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The Common Room / Re: Why do Eng. move to Aus.?
« on: Wednesday 12 January 05 13:05 GMT (UK)  »
Yes, I agree.

I am a dual national, but my primary nationality has to be British (English) as England is my country of birth and I've never lived anywhere else (except Scotland, but that's the same thing).

Booger!

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The Common Room / Re: Why do Eng. move to Aus.?
« on: Tuesday 11 January 05 14:16 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,

Yes, I know about the "White Australia Policy" of the 40s...60s, but I heard somewhere that the Austrialian govenment still has an unofficial preference for white people. I'm sure most normal Austrialians don't share the same view though.

Just out of interest, do non-native Australians (transported for stealing a button or otherwise) feel more patriotic to England or Austrialia? I suppose the fact that you still have the Union flag in the corner of your own flag means that you don't want to let go of the motherland.

Oh yes, the whole of the UK has become expensive over the past 5 years. Who'd have thought that Scotland and Wales would be too expensive for young people.

I think most property owning Limey-poms can afford to sell up and buy pretty spectacular houses in the former colonies.

Booger

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The Common Room / Re: Why do Eng. move to Aus.?
« on: Tuesday 11 January 05 13:52 GMT (UK)  »
I heard that Australia welcomes immigrants from the UK because they are predominantly white anglosaxons  :o

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The Common Room / Register?
« on: Wednesday 05 January 05 15:43 GMT (UK)  »
Was there a register of all people living in the UK during WWI? Would it give name, address, DOB of civilians? Is the register accessible to the public?

I've heard of a national registration card (1915), but I don't know if anything was kept that would be of use to genealogists.

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The Common Room / Re: burial index
« on: Sunday 26 December 04 17:55 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,

Thanks for the lookup.

My Alfred Surridge died in 1928, so he probably isn't on the NBI yet.

Cheers,

Kris.

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The Common Room / burial index
« on: Saturday 25 December 04 19:08 GMT (UK)  »

Hi,

Does anyone have the *new* NBI? Would you mind doing a quick search for Alfred James Surridge?

Thanks,

Kris.

P.S. Christmas day T.V is dreadful!

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The Lighter Side / Re: Average Age of Family History Enthusiasts
« on: Wednesday 22 December 04 14:21 GMT (UK)  »
36 yrs and rising >:(

It's a 30s and 40s thing. We're all middle aged and getting measured up for our coffins. We have to leave a record now to show that we actually existed.

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