COSTLY PROBLEM The below may be of interest to the Listers; Payment to UK is expensive from AUSTRALIA and will give the viewers details showing the expense incurred recently when I went the CBA bank for a cheque for a 4 (four) UK pound cheque to cover the payment for a parish register, the bank charges were "Transaction Fee" $4.00 Aust. plus "Conversion" amount of $11.67 Aust. plus a "Fee and Stamp Duty" of$15.00 Aust.totalling $26.67. So in Australia we do have an expensive problem to purchase items this way. I noticed on some BMD sites they do not have all the popular "Credit Cards" listed especially Southwark BMD who seem to list "Visa" and no mention of "Master Card" One other site mentioned they have facility in Australia where you can place your payment in Australia!!!, possibly this may be something jointly that Parish Family History Societies could look at? I found out another problem when you send a Australian Cheque to UK the banks in UK want to charge an exorbitant amount to process a Australian cheque. I sent a cheque! from $25.00 Aust. to a charity organization and the UK bank wanted more to cash the cheque than what is was worth!! Possibly the only other way would be to use a "Professional Australian Family Transcription Service", pay them in Australia Dollars and let them do the procurement???? I think this maybe worth while to keep in mind! Regards,Colin Darby, Armidale NSW Australia. [email protected] --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.247 / Virus Database: 120 - Release Date: 6/04/2001