Cheaper births and deaths?

[kiterunner]

The December issue of Family Tree magazine says this at the end of an answer to a reader's letter: To help reduce the cost of buying full certificates the GRO now offer Online View digital images of certain birth and death records for £2.50 amongst other services. But I think they have jumped the gun putting that in, because I can't see anything about it on the GRO site.

[Merry]

When you say, "jumped the gun", do you mean this is something that is going to be offered in the future?

[Olde Crone]

I have to wonder why the GRO would have any interest in making things cheaper for us - the service stands whether anyone uses it or not, it isn't a business.

But....bring on cheaper certificates, whatever the reasoning behind them.

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[Phoenix]

Originally Posted by Merry

When you say, "jumped the gun", do you mean this is something that is going to be offered in the future?

I have a friend who has been beta testing the system, and I think she can already order the cheaper certs.

I assume that, like wills, they have found a way to speed the process up. I suspect that the main issue is the cost saving, but it will mean that I will probably buy again those certs that I know I possess, but not what I've done with them, and siblings of ancestors, particularly in city settings, to see where they moved, and who the informants were.

Yes, they can make a mint out of me!

[Olde Crone]

Yes, a cost saving (and staff saving) measure which is fine by me! Phoenix, I suspect I'll be following you, buying certs I know I already have but which are locked away in my daughter's attic.


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[Merry]

Is this anything to do with it?

https://www.lostcousins.com/newslett...ews.htm#Online

From Lost Cousins Newsletter May 2022, about 1/4 in - The Shape of Things to Come.

[Phoenix]

Okay, ten months.