Could I also add a point to Roy's message that there is a certain company who offer to get certificates for you and they ALWAYS call the Register Office - Registry Office. Keep away from anyone offering certs from a REGISTRY Office. A local REGISTER OFFICE charges 7GBP for a certificate. I believe that the company offering REGISTRY Office certificates charges around 27GBP. Roy, I'm surprised you haven't begun a One Man Campaign to have the sign changed <vbg> Kind regards Judith ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roy Stockdill" <roy.stockdill@btinternet.com> To: <WEST-RIDING@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 1:20 PM Subject: Re: [WRY] Local Registry Office vs General Registry Office > From: "Carol Ann Pelletier" <carpel@nb.sympatico.ca> > >> Thank you to all for your comments. >> >> I will try the Leeds Registry Office as I would definitely prefer a >> copy of the original certificate and to see my grandfather's signature >> would be great. Thanks again. >> >> Carol Ann> > > No doubt I shall be accused of nitpicking, but could I just point out to > everyone that the correct term is local REGISTER Office, not registry? > And the proper title of the GRO is the General REGISTER Office. If you > don't believe me, go to their website. > > It is a very common error amongst the general public and even amongst > those in authority (we have road signs in Watford, Herts, where I live, > for > instance, pointing to "Watford Registry Office") but I wouldn't expect > family historians to make it. > > -- > Roy Stockdill > Editor, Journal of One-Name Studies > Guild of One-Name Studies website: www.one-name.org > Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: > www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html > > "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, > and that is not being talked about." > OSCAR WILDE > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > WEST-RIDING-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

From: "Judith Kettlewell" <judith.kettlewell@btinternet.com> > Could I also add a point to Roy's message that there is a certain > company who offer to get certificates for you and they ALWAYS call the > Register Office - Registry Office. Keep away from anyone offering > certs from a REGISTRY Office. > > A local REGISTER OFFICE charges 7GBP for a certificate. > > I believe that the company offering REGISTRY Office certificates > charges around 27GBP.> Excellent point, Judith. These people should be avoided like the plague. There is one particular outfit that has established websites linked to virtually every register office in the country and done it so cleverly that they often come up top of the list with a Google search. They have also made the sites look like the official register office. However, as you say, they charge something like FOUR times the amount for a certificate that anyone can obtain for themselves from either the GRO or the local registrar. I considered a complaint to the Trading Standards people but couldn't get them sufficiently interested to pursue it. -- Roy Stockdill Editor, Journal of One-Name Studies Guild of One-Name Studies website: www.one-name.org Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE