Genealogy Chat

I am so fed up finally managed to track I thought with help on here from a couple of people and sent for the Certs ,Today yipee the Postman brought all 3 and guess what all 3 are WRONG , I am £21 poorer and no wiser.

Oh no, Valerie! But you are slightly wiser in that you can rule out all those ones that you have, if that is any consolation. If you order any more, don't forget that you can specify 'checking points' so that you don't get the cert if it is the wrong one, and then they refund some of your money. Kate.

How frustrating for you, I have done that myself, but not three together!! I'm a bit more patient now before sending off for certs. I try to back track each of the possibilities on the censuses first to check the families are the correct ones but it doesn't always work. Hard luck mate :( kat:)

That's really tough. I do hope you have better fortune next time! Christine

Oh Val I do sympathise, same thing happened to me a few weeks back, only the one though, but still a pain!! there were four to choose from and I picked the most likely one, got the GRO to check out the other three, and it was none of them, the damn child wasn't registered!!! Grrrrr

I am only back on here because I didnt have enough Tablets to do it. Thanks for your responses isnt it terrible when that happens?? I am usually very impatient and sometimes do take a chance, but this time I didnt I have been checking them for months , finally arrived at what I thought were the right ones and it isnt.I am so disappointed today I could cry BUT I WONT I WILL GO ON

Oh Val! What a terrible thing to say! As Kate says, you have paid out to eliminate - put a positive slant on it. But hang on to the certs because Ive discounted one totally and then later gone back and realised that the daft girl (named as mother) had given a different name on all the census but in fact it was the right cert.

Valerie It may not be quite as bad as you think. My cousin sent off for a cert got wrong one. Hers was sent to someone else and vice versa just a possibility this may have happened with yours. Pat

morning Heather. I wouldnt really do that too much of a coward I am. Whats strange is one of them a birth cert names the father as a Cabinet maker journeyman, and he was. Oh my God it is the right one I think !!!!! I am so stupid hoorah hoorah hoorah

I stupidly did not give a checking ref I will do in future though thanks for al your help it has given me new hope

I'm just waiting for my first 2 certificates to arrive, oh God I hope they're right......

I've ordered my first 6 or 7 from the UK so I hope they're right. The couple of ones I ordered in Aus were right but they were only for marriage and deaths, births are back in the UK. Talk about my family making it difficult for me. I've more family in the UK than in Aus. Keep your chin up, there's likely to be a link somewhere. Especially when you had cousins etc with the same names. Gypsyjoe

DON'T DO IT VALERIE !!!!!!!!!!!! Just think - You can make at least three people VERY happy if you put the details up on here !! - Worth the £21 I think. I only had 1 wrong one (which wasn't my fault - It was GRO who didn't do what was requested, BUT - It linked up with 2 people on here and that made me feel MUCH better. - Not the wasted £7., but 2 people moved forward in their research. Perhaps I am sad, but £3.50 each, to make people happy made it seem worthwhile. Dea x

If its any consolation, I just ordered 3 certs to help with moving my research on. Felt very smug, especially as delivery time is 28th June, so not too long to wait. I remembered to make a note of what I'd ordered. New bank card too so glad new number worked, etc. then i realised on one of the certs I put the WRONG surname. Dumb or what! nell

sorry late replying got so despondant did some gardening instead, now that is bad. I am trying to find what happened to Sarah Emily Sigston Born 1851 Regents Park St Pancras to a John Thomas Keen born 1850 Bethnal Green married September 1869 St Pancras then no trace of them on any census cannot find a death for either of them. Several people on here kindly found a Sarah Emily Keen had married in 1877 to a Samuel Scott so we thought oh she had remarried but its the wrong Sarah. The other one would you believe is a John Thomas Knight born 1873 Islington I thought I had found his marriage to a Alice but could not find the marriage cert so sent for a sons birth cert instead which I am still not sure is right ,as the father is a John Thomas Henry Knight and I have never seen Henry in his name before but he is a Cabinet maker Journeyman and his Father was a Cabinet Maker, trouble is there are so many Keens and Knights , trust my lot to be common. I would love somebody to find either a marriage for John Knight or a death or cesus for John Thomas Keen with Sarah Emily or without each other.Thanks for listening feel better now.

Valerie, have you ever seen this birth entry (on FreeBMD)? Births Dec 1872 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Knight John Thomas H Islington 1b 329 And this marriage: Marriages Dec 1897 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Edwards Walter Joseph Bethnal G. 1c 318 GOOZEE Alice Bethnal G 1c 318 Knight John Thomas H Bethnal Green 1c 318 LAPPING Esther Bethnal G. 1c 318 What is the mother's name on the birth certificate that you are unsure about? Is it Alice Knight, formerly Goozee? Anyway, the birth entry certainly makes it look possible that your John was a John Thomas Henry, doesn't it? So don't despair just yet! Kate.

you are wonderful I have never been able to confirm which birth is his but now I see the H in his name I reckon you are right so will be sending for his birth cert and their marriage cert too blow the expense I need to know the minute I do I shall put a post on here , either good or bad thanks so much..

\\\\\ Me Too, I bin there..........waited three weeks, then got the dreaded email............refund,,,,,,,,,,,I'd put her Pluudy maiden name instead of the name she died with.. Bob

thats so easy to do isnt it , I have already ordered the certs and I nearly did the same thing .I would have really been fed up .

Valerie, Done the same myself....... :( David blinking Dean.... Grrr..... I don't think anyone registered him before he married.. Maybe I should have added his name to my son but how was I to know 15 years ago! Really felt like GRRRRR........ He doesn't want to be found :(