Family History - Cost of certificates going up.

[lillian]

I know a few of you are researching your family history. From the 6th April the cost the birth, death and marriage certificates is going up from £7 to a whooping £9.25 for the standard service ::)

[lillian]

[SMP1704]

Ouch!

Although now that sites like Ancestry are scanning more and more parish records, we will need to purchase fewer certificates.  For those who don't have a subscription to Ancestry and have London ancestors (highest % of scanned parish registers), I am happy to run a search for you - just PM me the details.  Also happy to census searches 1841-1901.

[PurpleHeather]

I think the government are rather clever the way they get money from us by increasing the price of this sort of thing.

Passports £77.50 (used to be £10)

The driving license was supposed to be £10 and would last until you are 70 years old then they got the photo ones which have to be replaced every 10 years.

All government departments used to have free returns postage. Now we have to affix our own postage stamps. Niggles that, especially when it is the inland revenue who want money from me.

0870 numbers for certain queries.

Identity cards you need a passport to get. Now come on, why do we need both?

[vjm63]

I just noticed the Ancestry mention in SMP1704's post - it might be worth checking that your local library does not have its own subscription to this, if you do not have a personal one.

I do not know if all libraries do, but many will - and it can really save!