Genealogy Chat

OMG the price has gone up to under £10 each, I am devastated.!!!!!!!!

A couple of bottles of cheap wine for £10 that you drink, and it ends up in the toilet....
A couple of packets of cigarettes that go up in smoke.

It is still cheap when you think of the information you get from them, and they last more or less for ever.

Stop moaning everyone, they are good value for money.

George

I xhall order 4 today but £9 25 is a lot of money. I have ancesstry and if you are lucky enough to have some from London you can get them since they put the LMA records on but not all of them

Margaret

OMG - I'll have to really think about what I do order and if I can get away without for the time being I will.

n

I am lucky that I have all the available certificates for my direct line but I still buy others when I find something interesting or need to solve a niggling puzzle and the price rise will certainly make me think twice about ordering from the GRO.

Do we know if local Register Offices will be increasing in line? If not, and they are ones that will issue certs for family history purposes, then I can see them having a big increase in 'business'.

***UPDATE***
Local Register Offices £9 plus any charge for postage

Chris

A 32% increase seems a bit much. They'd be better off charging extra postage for all the overseas orders they get.

Rose

n

I found out at work today about the rise. It is the first since 2003. If their system works the same as the passport office, as long as your application has been received by the cut off date it should be processed at the lower fee..
They have obviously realised that many of us do family history and there is money to be had.
I am lucky that my mum is an only child and her mother was the eldest so I have original cert going back to the early 1900's.

OMG!

Better make a list of all the ones I still want...and get them ordered PDQ!!!

Whilst it seems a lot in one go, it's not actually that bad to be fair - it's the first increase in 7yrs and is only marginally over the rate of inflation when applied from 2003. Still, it's approaching that mental £10 barrier - if I have to break a note to buy something it always seems pricey!

Kate x

hi
im glad i ordered mine on sunday that a big increase

Ouch!

I was going to wait until the credit card statement date....but perhaps not now.

Marilyn - I just don't know. I had thought the certs were bound to go up soon but I imagined a 50p increase.

Guess what a lot of us will be doing tomorrow!

I always thought they debited the card when they sent it out, may be wrong, hopefully I am wrong.

Marilyn - don't they debit our cards straight away? I shouldn't think we will have to pay the increase because of their work load - will we?

Off to make a list....

Wow, this mean's i will be paying $20.00 per certificate, sad news indeed .

Pam

They will have a rush on certificates and then they will take ages to come. If it goes past the increase date and we still havent received them, wonder what price we will pay.

We are paying for those who want to pay £23.40 for priority service instead of the usual £27.50 if there is not a reference given.

The price increase is horrendous isnt it!
I'll have to see which certificates I need to order before they go up.

OMG! That is an horrendous increase.

As a protest.......from now on I'm not going to bother looking up and giving the reference number (make them work for the extra money!) because it won't cost any more without it LOL.

Mary

That's what I am thinking, Marion.

I'm going to order 4 now for £28; after April I would only get three for that price.