Is it me? but I don't see this as a great forward step compared with status quo. Pdf fee is now £8 rather than the £6 in earlier phase and therefore only marginally cheaper that a full (legal) certificate. No new indexing has been created (perhaps supplying exact spouse) so need the current GRO indexes (FreeBMD etc) to provide the full reference. What have other members found? Michael Tedd (329) -----Original Message----- From: Wendy Archer Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2017 7:24 PM To: goons@rootsweb.com Subject: [G] PDF Pilot phase 3 of the England & Wales certificate ordering system With thanks to a post by the Federation of Family History Societies, there is news of PDF Pilot Phase 3 of the England & Wales certificate ordering system. >From https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/Login.asp PDF Pilot Phase 3 We are trialling a service from 16 March to provide PDF copies of our non-digitised records. Records will not be immediately viewable, but emailed as a PDF. Applications for each PDF cost £8, must be made online and include a GRO index reference. England and Wales records which are available as PDF's in pilot 3 include: Births: 1935-2006 Deaths: 1958-2006 Marriages: 1837-2010 Full details are linked from the webpage. Wendy _____________________________________________ RootsWeb Surname List - are your interests there? http://rsl.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

The reason phase 1 was £6 and indexed is because that is the records that had already been digitised. The £8 is for those records that have not already been digitised. So assuming they roll it out as a full service after the Trials then you will have up to 5 options. 1) Get Certificate in post as now cost £9.25 2) Priority Certificate in post as now cost £23.40 3) PDF of Birth or Death from digitised records (Births 1837-1934, Deaths 1837-1957) cost £6 - Phase 1 Trial 4) Priority PDF cost £45 - Phase 2 Trial 5) PDF of Birth/Death/Marriage of non digitised records (Births 1935-2006, Deaths 1958-2006, Marriages 1837-2010) Cost £8 - Phase 3 Trial So Phase 3 will still be cheaper than Certificate and also as emailed, if live outside of UK, will get details quicker than if posted. Tim Treeby GOONS : 7112 On 17/03/2017 14:04, michael@anstey-history.info wrote: > > Is it me? but I don't see this as a great forward step compared with > status quo. > > Pdf fee is now £8 rather than the £6 in earlier phase and therefore > only marginally cheaper that a full (legal) certificate. > > No new indexing has been created (perhaps supplying exact spouse) so > need the current GRO indexes (FreeBMD etc) to provide the full reference. > > What have other members found? > > Michael Tedd (329) > --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus