Hi Manus,
Of course I don't mind you asking. I'm afraid I've only been doing this myself recently, and the letter from Wexford Births, Marriages and Deaths therefore only arrived a couple of days ago (I first wrote about a week ago). However, they say that they accept payment by credit card, bank draft or postal order. They were able to find 7 certificates for me (Dublin could only find 3) and their total comes to 43 euros, including research costs. Here's the procedure I have followed with them so far:
I wrote to them at the address given before (after phoning them), just giving as much info as possible.
They then sent my letter back to me (heavily annotated) and beside each name and date I had given them, they had written whether or not they could find it. Where they had been successful, they had written an ID/Reference number beside the name. They asked me to send this letter back to them again, telling them which (of the certificates found) I wished to purchase (they need the letter for the ID numbers).
Payment can be made by credit card, bank draft or postal order. I requested a search for a total of 7 certificates (in Dublin, they could only find 3). The total came to 43 euros, including the research fees.
This is the point I have got up to. I wrote on the 14th of October and the letter arrived on Saturday. Since I'm not keen on giving out credit card details by post, I'm going to phone them (with the ID numbers) and try to order them that way, hopefully tomorrow (work permitting) or, if not, Wednesday. Once I have, I'll send you a post to let you know if they'll take orders over the phone.
Tamsin
