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Hope I am on the right board for this. I am researching from Canada so must order certificates online. Please, can someone tell me click-by-click how to order a PDF certificate? I have the index reference, but I find it very frustrating that I cannot find how to get the PDF when I am on https://www.gov.uk/order-copy-birth-death-marriage-certificate. They offer only the printed copy. I paid £11 and it has been a month now and it is still not here. Thanks for your help.

Is anybody out there scholar in English Ecclesiastical History from medieval times to 17th century? I have asked this question and it either goes off topic, or people just guess at the answer. You lot are pretty sharp so I am hoping somebody will know.

I have a knight who died in 1618. A respected genealogy and antiquarian book published about 1907 said that he had a tomb and effigy in a chapel in a certain church. I found it, still there in the church. Later research (not by me. This comes from the church.) found a masons mark on the tomb. This mason died at least 100 years previous to my knight. Research also showed that the original knight's coat of arms had been removed and replaced with my guy's. Research also showed that the chapel was a Chantry for the previous knight before the Reformation. So my question is this. Was it common practice in that era to do what my knight did? I was kind of shocked, but then it was a different time.

I am going way back here. Rev. Thomas Blakiston was a member of a very prominent Durham family. His brother John was one of the Regicides, but his father Marmaduke was very high church. His brother George emigrated to Maryland. The Maryland Historical Magazine (Vol.2 Issue 1, 1907 p.54) says that Rev. Thomas Blakiston was "ejected during the Civil wars 1640/1". I want to know why and how this happened. Does anybody know? Or does anybody know any Civil war sites, experts or forums where I could ask? I have to do this online because I am in Canada.

Thanks very much for your help. You folks always come through.

I have a page from a 1818 baptismal register that has a couple of children of the family that I am researching registered as 'half baptised'. A couple of years later they are registered in the same church in the normal was as being baptised.  Now, I'm an Anglican, (as were they) and I always thought that either you were baptised or you weren't.  Maybe somebody with more religious education can tell me what is going on here.  Has anybody else seen or heard of this?

These children were from an affluent family that all lived reasonably close by in the suburbs London, so it wasn't like they had to wait to get together.