Hi Liz and Listers I always leave my email address on postems in the hope that someone will contact me eventually with a family connection but none so far but I live in hope. I don't advertise that I possess the marriage, birth or death certificate but I do leave a little taster sometimes such as son of William and Mary Smith or whoever. I sometimes quote the county where they were born and facts like moved to Bristol for work in 1870, or coal miner or teacher. I possibly don't own as many certificates as lots of our researchers as living in Bristol and having a very large number of Bristol ancestors, I've been able to find the relevant marriage, baptism or death entry in the appropriate parish register. This has taken countless hours searching through parish registers at Bristol, Gloucester and Somerset Record Offices over the years. However, I have not had to pay for too many certificates and sympathise with those listers who are going to have to pay more for their certificates in future. This will affect me to a small degree as I have still to find deaths for some of my ancestors so I too will have to pay the new fee. Bernice

Hi Bernice...I'm finding the death certificates are often the most interesting - accidentally shot, cirrhosis of the liver in a 35 year old woman, most seem to have had bronchitis. "Old age" when the person was only 67...that scared me as I'm older than that! Down here in Cornwall one of the vicars was very helpful and actually stated why his parishioners had died. I must order some more. Liz www.btinternet.com/~e.newbery OPC for Street, Somerset ----- Original Message ----- From: <Bernpeg@aol.com> To: <bristol_and_district@rootsweb.com>; <E.Newbery@btinternet.com> Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 7:54 PM Subject: Re: [B&D] Bad news from the GRO > Hi Liz and Listers > I always leave my email address on postems in the hope that someone will > contact me eventually with a family connection but none so far but I live > in > hope. I don't advertise that I possess the marriage, birth or death > certificate but I do leave a little taster sometimes such as son of > William and > Mary Smith or whoever. I sometimes quote the county where they were born > and > facts like moved to Bristol for work in 1870, or coal miner or teacher. I > possibly don't own as many certificates as lots of our researchers as > living > in Bristol and having a very large number of Bristol ancestors, I've been > able to find the relevant marriage, baptism or death entry in the > appropriate parish register. This has taken countless hours searching > through parish > registers at Bristol, Gloucester and Somerset Record Offices over the > years. However, I have not had to pay for too many certificates and > sympathise > with those listers who are going to have to pay more for their > certificates > in future. This will affect me to a small degree as I have still to find > deaths for some of my ancestors so I too will have to pay the new fee. > Bernice > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BRISTOL_AND_DISTRICT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >