I would love to have signed it as I need to order MANY certificates and have stopped doing so but I am a US citizen and can't sign the petition. I know the GRO gets many out of Britain orders. Joan Armistead On Jun 21, 2012, at 5:25 AM, Pat Stanistreet wrote: > If you haven't come across this already you may be interested > in the following which is on the excellent British Genes blog, > concerning a petition to reduce the cost of BMD certificates from the > GRO England and Wales. > > “The > idea is to have uncertified copies of certificates for family > history research, > which have no legal authority, similar to what they do in the > Republic of Ireland. These could be obtained at a much lower > fee, the price of £2 per certificate is suggested.” > > The link is > < http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/1792 > > Should also be worth posting on other message boards you subscribe to. > > Pat > ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ > > Admin Message - List guidelines: > http://freespace.virgin.net/genealogical.collections/AdminMessage.htm > > The list admin can be contacted at > [email protected] > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message