Suppose you want a birth, marriage or death certificate for an English (or Welsh) ancestor. You can choose to pay more or less. Here are some options:
£9.25 including postage, from the General Register Office for England and Wales online ordering service.
According to a post by Else Churchill of the Society of Genealogists the UK Advertising Standards Authority has now upheld three separate complaints about third party websites misleading customers into believing that they were ordering from the government's own website. Those third party sites are: UK GRO Certificates, UK Official Services and Vital Certificates.
According to Registrar General Sarah Rapson "It is always quicker, cheaper and safer to deal directly with the General Register Office for certificate orders."
Why pay more?
3 comments:
Thank you for this info, as most genealogists are kind and sharing people, it's important to bring these matters to our attention, so that we don't get "fleeced" !
According to Sarah Rapson, things are done quicly, I personally waited 18 working days, and the results came back as a no trace.
Went to the private organisation www.ukofficialservices.co.uk and they managed to find the overseas birth record and I received it in 10 working days.
Had the same problem and was recommend to use a different organisation https://www.ukofficialrecords.co.uk might be the same organisation, they checked if my record exists when I called them up. Great Service didn't have to wait 20 working days for a response.
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