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16 December 2002
Registration fees increase
The cost of obtaining a standard birth, death or marriage
certificate after the initial registration will increase from £6.50 to
£7.00 from 1 April 2003.
Fees for certificates issued locally at Register Offices
The fees for standard certificates of birth, death and marriage
issued by superintendent registrars will increase from £6.50 to
£7.00 and for short birth certificates from £5.00 to £5.50. The fee
for certificates issued at the time of registration by registrars of
births and deaths and additional registrars will remain at £3.50.
Fees for certificates issued by the General Register Office
The fees for short or standard certificates of birth, death and
marriage issued centrally by the General Register Office (GRO)
following personal or other means of application, will also
increase by 50 pence.
Take care
Jayne
Ontario, Canada
I use the following for my research.
ARCHIVE CD BOOKS - http://www.archivecdbooks.orghttp://www.webcomcreations.com/memory/index.htmhttp://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~spire/index.htmhttp://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/~spire/
I have just spent the better part of the morning checking out how the
surnames I'm researching are distributed through the UK using the 1881
Census National Index CD's.
If you want to try it out for yourself and you have the CD's check out:
http://www.wykes.org/dist/
Take care
Jayne
I support and use for my own research
ARCHIVE CD BOOKS
Bringing genealogy and history to your door.
A not for profit project reproducing old books on CD for genealogists
http://www.archivecdbooks.org
*A2A Update, December 2002*
A celebration of culture in England was held by the A2A Central Team at the
Public Record Office in Kew on Saturday 30 November. At A2A Uncovered,
researchers and other members of the public enjoyed a free buffet lunch
followed by a concert of English songs and readings from a 19th century
thriller and Black theatre archives - based around A2A's database at
www.a2a.pro.gov.uk, online at the event. Digital images of relevant
archives described (or soon to be described) in A2A were projected during
the performances. Talks on planned A2A projects were also given. Our
thanks are due to all those who contributed to the event, which helped to
bring A2A and archives in general to the attention of a wider audience.
The latest update to the A2A database took place on 2 December: the number
of English repositories contributing catalogues now stands at 218. Further
catalogues from the Yorkshire Signpost project have been added, from 20
repositories ranging from the Bayle Museum in Bridlington to the York
Merchant Adventurers Company. Also included in this month's update were
catalogues of hospital archives held in 11 repositories across England.
The A2A Central Team is very pleased to announce that the Heritage Lottery
Fund has made two grants to A2A projects led by archives users - A Place in
the Sun and Re-membering Black Performance.
A Place in the Sun, delivered by the London Archive Users Forum, will
provide A2A with detailed information about people and places mentioned in
the policy registers of the Sun Insurance company for 1816-1824 held at the
Guildhall Library. Re-membering Black Performance, co-ordinated by Future
Histories, will provide new catalogues of the 20th century archives of two
Black theatre organisations - the Black Theatre Forum and Nitro Theatre
Company - held at Middlesex University.
As we are approaching Christmas you might like to know that the archives
described in A2A include a photograph of 'BGAC girls' learning how to make
Christmas cake in the 1950s (among the papers of the Cadbury family held at
Birmingham City Archives), crew lists for a vessel - or possibly more than
one - called the Mistletoe (held at Devon Record Office), and tickets for
Christmas dinners organised by the League of Welldoers at the turn of the
last century (held at Merseyside Record Office). You might like to see what
else you can find...
A2A is the English strand in the UK archives network: its database at
www.a2a.pro.gov.uk already contains the electronic equivalent of over
400,000 catalogue pages describing archives held across England in national,
local and specialist repositories and dating from the 900s to the present
day. The A2A programme will make a further 300,000 catalogue pages
available on the web by March 2004.
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Sarah J A Stark
New this month:
http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk/about/catalogues/new.asp
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>From the Listowners List.
Take care
Jayne
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I'm Colin Miller from Family Research Link, the company behind
www.1837online.com. As many of you are aware, I have been involved in
genealogy for some ten years, and have been a member of the Family Records
Centre User Group since 1999. The genealogy community was naturally front of
mind when we designed our website www.1837online.com.
I have been reading all the newsgroup postings concerning our website and
would like to apologise for any confusion or misunderstanding. We have
written a FAQ section and posted this on our website to answer the majority
of queries that were raised. If the FAQ's fail to answer any questions
please contact me personally and I will endeavour to answer these for you.
http://www.1837online.com/help/FAQ.html
Following user testing during this week, we have decided to delay our launch
by a week. Some of our testers have suggested very sensible alterations to
our service which we are undertaking at the moment. We look forward to
launching on Sunday 15th December.
Best regards,
Colin Miller
Head of Operations
Family Research Link
www.1837online.com
colin.miller(a)1837online.com
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Announcing a new mailing list - UK-NEWSPAPER-EXTRACTS-L
The purpose of this list is to make available to genealogists worldwide any
UK newspaper extracts from old newspapers for any region of the UK that
would be of interest or of value to genealogy research.
Old newspapers contain much of interest to the genealogist - Births,
Marriages and deaths, inquests, court cases and assizes, trade
advertisements, bankrupts, snippets of local interest and give us an
accurate picture of the lives of our ancestors, adding flesh to their bones
in a way
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Take care
Jayne
Ontario, Canada
Order your DERBYSHIRE 1861/1891 Census CD's:
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