Sher, As I said in my response to the initial question, the amount varies from county records office to county records office. Whether it is more expensive to order from the General Records Office (GRO) depends on where your research is. What Dawn ordered was about the same price as ordering directly from the GRO. Ordering from some of the counties where I am researching is cheaper than ordering from the GRO, and ordering from others isn't. Additionally, if you are lucky enough to have a county that has scanned register records post-mid-1837 and made them accessible on the web, you can access any available ones online and skip ordering those from anywhere, as these registers are where all these other record copies originated. Ancestry.co.uk has the largest number of these so far, and there are selected ones available elsewhere, including a growing number at FamilySearch.org. Some aren't indexed and the ones that are indexed are often poorly indexed (especially certain parish recor! d sets on Ancestry), but when weighing the cost of ordering from the UK against the time it takes to search a community page-by-page online, many people (myself included) usually choose the latter. Liz Loveland USA > They may have gone up, but I think they are more expensive if you order from the "General Record Office" rather than the individual county offices.

Hi Liz: I guess I've been lucky to have ancestors in the "cheap" counties!!! None of my people brought records with them to Ontario, either that or they were all tossed out when their kids cleaned out their houses! That's more like it! I seldom use ancestry - If I have good decade after decade census records, and we do here in Ontario, then I simply order from the information I glean from them. It usually works. One time I wasn't sure which certs to order because there were two fellows called James (cousins of the same age) and they both married a Mary Ann. which one do I choose? I couldn't afford two certs at that time, so I e-mailed the record office, told them my dilemma and they told me which was the right one! Saved me a few bucks! I was very happy! I sometimes think its who you talk to over there that makes the difference. Sher At 11:19 AM 26/02/2012 -0500, you wrote: >Sher, > >As I said in my response to the initial question, the amount varies from >county records office to county records office. Whether it is more >expensive to order from the General Records Office (GRO) depends on where >your research is. What Dawn ordered was about the same price as ordering >directly from the GRO. Ordering from some of the counties where I am >researching is cheaper than ordering from the GRO, and ordering from >others isn't. Additionally, if you are lucky enough to have a county that >has scanned register records post-mid-1837 and made them accessible on the >web, you can access any available ones online and skip ordering those from >anywhere, as these registers are where all these other record copies >originated. Ancestry.co.uk has the largest number of these so far, and >there are selected ones available elsewhere, including a growing number at >FamilySearch.org. Some aren't indexed and the ones that are indexed are >often poorly indexed (especially certain parish recor! > d sets on Ancestry), but when weighing the cost of ordering from the UK > against the time it takes to search a community page-by-page online, many > people (myself included) usually choose the latter. > >Liz Loveland >USA > > > > They may have gone up, but I think they are more expensive if you order > from the "General Record Office" rather than the individual county offices. > > >*********** >Ten People All Genealogists Should Follow On Twitter: >http://www.geneabloggers.com/ten-people-genealogists-follow-twitter/ > >Search Ontario Genealogy & Resources at http://olivetreegenealogy.com/can/ont/ >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >ONTARIO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >Version: 8.5.455 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/4232 - Release Date: 02/25/12 >19:47:00