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GRO Certificate Orders

Posted by Nicholas jackman on 29/5/2021, 8:31 am

The GRO site is asking people not to request these if they are not urgent. So for the last year I've held back from placing any orders, given that they would only be for genealogical purposes, which I can't say are really "urgent". Does anyone have recent experience of how the GRO is responding to this sort of request at the moment?

Re: GRO Certificate Orders

Posted by Richard Mallett on 18/7/2021, 2:31 am, in reply to "GRO Certificate Orders"

Hi Nicholas,

I have ordered certificates from the GRO over the past year without any problems.

I am interested to know where your family come from as I have Jackman ancestry.

Regards

Richard

Re: GRO Certificate Orders

Posted by Deborah O'Brien on 29/5/2021, 2:52 pm, in reply to "GRO Certificate Orders"

I've ordered births and deaths through the online service delivered as PDFs - they arrived within a few days of ordering. https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/Login.asp

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Posted by Karen Newman on 30/5/2021, 5:07 pm, in reply to "Re: GRO Certificate Orders"

I ordered a marriage cert a few weeks ago (no PDF option) and it came about a week later.

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Posted by Mary Popkin on 2/7/2021, 11:10 pm, in reply to "Re: GRO Certificate Orders"

I also need to order several certificates from the GRO, not originals are need and as I live in Canada I would prefer just to receive PDFs of them. They no longer show this method on their website, have they stopped using this system. I have been trying to get a response from them by email for almost two weeks and still no answers.

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Posted by Sally Topliss on 6/7/2021, 10:38 am, in reply to "Re: GRO Certificate Orders"

Hi Mary,
I have just done a test through the process of obtaining a birth certificate and did get a PDF option, so it seems to be still available.
Sally

Re: GRO Certificate Orders

Posted by Mary popkin on 7/7/2021, 2:54 pm, in reply to "Re: GRO Certificate Orders"

Thank you all for your response re obtaining PDF of certificates. Much appreciated.

Re: GRO Certificate Orders

Posted by Nicholas Jackman on 15/6/2021, 3:38 pm, in reply to "Re: GRO Certificate Orders"

Deborah, Karen - belated thanks for your responses. Much appreciated. I'll get back on the GRO trail again.

Re: GRO Certificate Orders

Posted by Mary popkin on 6/7/2021, 3:07 pm, in reply to "Re: GRO Certificate Orders"

Thank you everyone for your responses to the PDF of certificates I will attempt to place an order again today.

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