It is quicker (often by return of post) and cheaper (£6.50 as against £8.50) to get them from Birkenhead. It is always so with local register offices, except Liverpool. Liverpool has a back-log of about 8 weeks, so then it is quicker to get it from Southport. Sue Sue, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire Researching: Liverpool - AVERY, CHADWICK, DICKINSON, DEWHURST, GILLAM, HOWARD, KNOWLES, McCLELLAND, MORELAND, PALING, SMITH, WATSON Birkenhead - BURKETT, HOWARD, SMITH, WATSON, BODEN Ludlow - GILLAM, HADFIELD, JONES Dobhill, Bolton - BAXENDALE Mold, Leeswood, Tryddyn, and Caernarvon - HUGHES, DAVIES (Mold) Scotland - McCLELLAND Westmorland - MORELAND London - PALING, HARRIS Keswick, Cumbria - ARMSTRONG Nottingham - PALING Berkshire - PALING