Genealogy Chat

i keep a folder one for births, one for marriages and one for deaths. i only have about 20, i was wondering how many peolpe have.

24 including 6 originals dating back over 120 years

Kirsty

Am not going to count because I will then multiply by the £7.00 a time.............and it's too near bedtime - I want sweet dreams not nightmares.

xxx

lol:)
how did you manage to get hold of originals. did you put then in your pocket!

my grandad had kept them safe including his sister's husbad's first marriage cert. my Gran's parents birth, marriage & death cert for each of them. Only found them this year after he died and my gran was going to throw them away........some people!!!!!

I have a folder for each family unit which contains census details bmd's and any other information.
I dread to think how much all the certificates cost so like Lyndi Im not counting lol

definately not counting, but I know I sent my cousin copies of 35 certs a couple of weeks ago and that's just the side of the family we share :(

I have a sickening 186 certs...

24 are originals - including my own birth cert lol.

10 of which are ones I have not bought but have been shared by other relations - so I have scanned copies of them.

Not to mention about 5-6 wrong certificates!!

But that covers 5 years of research - my family (so my mother and fathers sides) and my partners family (his mother and father's sides - aswell as father's birth mother's side too.)

Thats the only thing if you count them it hits you how much you have spent ;;;

Babs

120 last time I counted and that was back in March of last year...have purchased loads of others since!

It's too shocking to work out how much I have spent on certificates in 4 years but I have received photo copies of some originals from Irish relatives too which helped me enormously.

Oh Mrs Tibbett and Theresa - I feel better now lol.
I received a certificate today, and as I filed it, remembering this thread I counted them all - and wished I hadn't.

There were 70.
Plus 10 that weren't who I thought but might fit later.
Plus six from Scotland (got them from scotlandspeople and they were £10 each!!!!!)

Scary stuff.

just had a count of some of mine 207 i think there is more somewhere in the house ..

I have a friend who has literally hundreds.
She is doing a one-name study though.

As she says, as long as the surname is correct, she never has a 'wrong' certificate because each one tells her something about one of the mini family groups.

Gwyn

wow, im impressed by everyone, and jealous!
i acually have 35, two more arrived in the post today, it felt like christmas. i was so excited, i was getting heart fluters! x

I have about 40 now......and a big long "wish" list that I chip away at slowly...it`d be lovely to have all the ones I want/need...but actually just ordering 1 or 2 at a time, means I go through that marvellous time of anticipation/watching for the postman/and the heart flutters that Pearl describes above, every few weeks...definetly one of the best bits of this hobby...getting the certs.


Nicky

Oh dear Pearl...I wish you hadn't asked the question lol...I had to do a count...170...worth every penny!!

I still have an ever growing list of "I need to get".

I never tire of the anticipation of receiving a new cert and woe be tide our old postman if he doesn't deliver on time lol...so much so...he started looking up his own family history LOL !!

Linda