Dear All, I seem to remember that the chief registrar at Bradford is a Mrs Dorothy Jenkins. I always inquire by fax first if they have a particular registry entry - the fax number is +44-1274-305139. They usually reply to me by (snail) mail, advising me if they have the certificate I need and asking for the cheque at that time. You may have read about the recent book by Michael Foster "The Marriage Records of England & Wales 1837-1899 (A Comedy of Errors)", which shows how many errors and inconsistencies have crept into the indexes (and probably registers) held centrally. The indexes used by local registrars (e.g. at Bradford) are not the same as those held centrally at the Family Records Centre (the GRO reference numbers are meaningless to local registrars) and may well be more accurate. If you send an inquiry to a local register office, with some obscure detail, they will typically locate the right certificate for you and make sure you don't receive the wrong one - as so often happens at FRC. A friend of mine was looking for the birth of a Mary Tordoff, daughter of John & Tabitha Tordoff. I'm pretty sure that didn't make it into the national index, but the Bradford Register Office were able to offer it first time. By the way, if one is keen one can go along and access the local registrar's index for a small daily fee. It's not the same as free access to the original certificates (sadly) but if one is pretty sure where a family comes from, then it can be a useful and possibly more accurate alternative to searching through the tomes at Myddleton Street. Best wishes Rob