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2 Certs, 2 different Copies??
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Martin | Report | 7 May 2008 15:00 |
Hi All, |
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kay | Report | 7 May 2008 15:09 |
Are you sure it came from G R O .I get my certs from local registers office,and they are usually copied from originals and signed by Registar. |
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Ajwyorks | Report | 7 May 2008 15:26 |
The GRO doesn't have the originals of any certs - it has copies produced from the originals. The handwriting on these is that of the clerk who copied them. |
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Thelma | Report | 7 May 2008 16:33 |
I have our original marriage certificate. |
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Thelma | Report | 7 May 2008 20:17 |
Hi Sheila |
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mgnv | Report | 7 May 2008 21:03 |
For non-recent Scottish BMD certificates, one normally buys an (uncertified) image of the whole page of the register. See: |
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Huia | Report | 7 May 2008 21:21 |
From some of the certs that I have bought I get the impression that they photocopy the extract from the register onto the cert. I decided this because on some it looks as if there is a bit of some other writing above or below the writing pertaining to my ancestor/s. |
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Janet 693215 | Report | 7 May 2008 22:11 |
I have a copy of my full birth certificate, obtained from the GRO a couple of years ago(my father only got the short version when registering me) and it is a scan of the original. I was registered 1964 South west esses (Stratford, east London) |
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RobG | Report | 8 May 2008 00:12 |
Janet - The one you have from the GRO is a scan of the copy held at the GRO. The original is held at the local Office (in your case, Stratford). All certs from GRO are like this (i.e scans of a copy, albeit a copy done at a similar time to the original). The only way to get a scan of the original is via the local office, and only then if it is an office that scans rather than transcribes. |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 8 May 2008 03:43 |
so the possible/probable answer to Martin's question then is that he and this other person got their copies of the marriage certificate from 2 different places. |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 8 May 2008 03:48 |
I will add here that we got 10 (yes TEN) copies of our marriage certificate ....... main reason we were leaving the country and it was thought we might need several copies, not sure why 10 was settled on. |
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:) still smiling :) | Report | 8 May 2008 13:20 |
i'm not trying to disagree with you all, but i am just a little confused. i have a letter signed by my great grandfather and the signature on the bottom is exactly the same as the one on his marriage cert.surely a person can't copy a signature that well! |
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Thelma | Report | 8 May 2008 14:24 |
Lee |
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Glen In Tinsel Knickers | Report | 8 May 2008 19:12 |
Have a look at the following link, there are examples of local office issued scanned and handwritten certs as well as examples of a GRO cert. |
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Martin | Report | 11 May 2008 04:56 |
Thank you all for your thoughts, opinions on this matter. |