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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: [Lon] BMD Certificates
Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 12:04:58 +0100
In-Reply-To: <024301c0cf8c$3c775b00$1dedfea9@airtech>



>The LDS in Salt Lake City will copy marriage certificate entries from parish
>registers that they have filmed. The cost is about $2-00 per order. However
>they cannot provide copies of certificates held by the General Register
>Office for England/Wales, or indeed the General Register Office Scotland.

I would have expected that this was a condition of their having the
Indexes. And, as far as is known, LDS do not have copies of the actual
registers of information, held jealously by ONS and GRO Scotland. I
cannot imagine that they would permit the undercutting of their
expensive certificate providing services. There is no service in the
UK for cheap copies of GRO/GROS certificates.
I believe that in America, the LDS may offer a service for ordering
ordinary certificates from England or Scotland, possibly only for their
members, possibly in general. I understand that a few of the larger LDS
centres might offer a certificate ordering service (Cheltenham used to)
for patrons. It may depend on the availability of volunteers at the
time.
>
>They may provide copies of the index page that pertains to a BDM reference
>that you require. They will also provide copies of entries in parish
>registers, such as baptisms, burials and pre civil registration (July 1837)
>marriages, but these are not certificates.

This is the situation as I have always understood it.

--
Eve McLaughlin

Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

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