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BMDs...the REAL ones?
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MrsBucketBouquet | Report | 22 Sep 2008 00:01 |
Is it possible to get hold of the original BMD certs? |
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KathleenBell | Report | 22 Sep 2008 00:05 |
Some register offices will photocopy the original registers if you order from them, but even then sometimes the original register that they keep are actually a copy of what was originally signed so you might still not get actual handwriting and signatures. |
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MrsBucketBouquet | Report | 22 Sep 2008 00:06 |
Thanks Kath...what a bummer! |
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Megs Dicky Island | Report | 22 Sep 2008 00:25 |
Hi Mrs Bucket |
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Judy | Report | 22 Sep 2008 08:36 |
You might not be aware but the Latter Day Saint site has added a new pilot section to their site - they are making available, FREE, copies of birth, death, and marriage certificates, as well as censuses. They are adding new stuff to the site every day so if you don't find something the first time you visit, keep trying. I am on a roll again with my own research as there was so much information posted on my family....things I have been searching for, for 20 years! |
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InspectorGreenPen | Report | 22 Sep 2008 08:45 |
There is no such thing as an 'original' certificate as all certificates, even the very first one ever issued, are a copy of the entry in the register. |
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Judy | Report | 22 Sep 2008 08:56 |
I stand corrected then....they are, however, as orignal as one is going to get......signatures and all. |
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InspectorGreenPen | Report | 22 Sep 2008 09:44 |
Yes, but as Kath says, many don't have signatures so all you see is a photocopy of the registrars clerk's handwriting in the register. |
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Alan | Report | 22 Sep 2008 09:56 |
You may find, as I did, that your relation couldnt write. Mine signed with a "X" |
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Ericthered | Report | 22 Sep 2008 11:00 |
Even the cert you are handed by the Registrar is not an 'original'.......it is a certified copy of an entry in the Register. |
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Thelma | Report | 22 Sep 2008 11:17 |
Marriages(quote) |
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JMW | Report | 22 Sep 2008 12:34 |
Birth, Death and Marriage Register entries are the only place where original signatures are required by law. Any 'signatures' on certificates are usually copies unless the vicar at a wedding got the couple to sign the certificate as well. This would not happen in a Register Office wedding. |
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♥Betty Boo from Dundee♥ | Report | 22 Sep 2008 13:23 |
Hi Judy93, |
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Judy | Report | 22 Sep 2008 18:11 |
Betty: |