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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Would you order a marriage cert...?
« on: Monday 28 January 13 15:22 GMT (UK) »Just to let you know that if you chose to order the certificate from the General Register Office using the volume and page numbers, you WON'T get the option to name the fathers as a reference check. This service stopped 3 years ago.
You can order certificates without the volume and page numbers but you have to specify the date and place of the marriage as well as the fathers names
Quote from the GRO ordering page
Date of marriage (dd/mm/yyyy)*
(If you do not know the exact date enter 01/01/1877, we will search the specified year and one either side)
Place of marriage *
The * indicates that these are mandatory fields, the fathers names are not.
This service can take 15-21 working days
Thanks dawn, I was aware of that. Would I be able to order the cert direct from Neath with the proviso that I only want it if the father's name matches?