General Chat

anyone want to sign a petition??????
its an outrage..there will be a hell of a lot of peeps out there who will not be able to afford this massive price increase.

Any idea when this increase will be implemented, or has it already....it's a big increase isn't it???!!!

I'll sign just tell me where and how.

There is another thread about this somewhere that tells you when it goes up along with other price hikes.

The other thread is on Roots chat Annina which gives all details , the price goes up 6th April. its an outrage as you say Earth i can hardly afford the £7 , a petition is a good idea.
Margaret

Dizzi has a thread on Chat about the increase.

didnt think anyone was interested,waited for some replys to this for a while,

I would sign it if there was one.

You think with how many they do a year must make they money to cover the cost @ £7 a time

Hazelx

Check out the prices we pay for Australian BDM certificates. Between $27 and $35 each. So that's about 14 to 18 of your pounds each give or take a few pennies.

The new price is cheap compared to our charges. Our transcripts cost more than your certificates.

On the Chat thread I pointed out that it must be at least an hour's work to process our requests and get the certificates back to us, especially if they haven't been given the exact reference, and the office overheads as well - and think of the minimum wage. And I was glad to find that others seemed to agree with me that we were getting value for money

The details of the 32% price increase are here
http://www.ips.gov.uk/cps/rde/xchg/ips_live/hs.xsl/1569.htm

Anyone fancy starting a Number 10 petition? http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/

Mark.

Under £10 for a cert is still cheap. There isn't much else that hasn't gone up since 2003 when the charges were last reviewed.

I don't think they really care what we think.
We are still going to order and pay.
BUT.... I would sign a petition.
Deanna X

let's face it, it's hardly an outrage ... Haiti is an outrage, Chile is an outrage, the collapse of the economy is an outrage, a 5 year old being kidnapped in Pakistan whilst on holiday with his father is an outrage ... I could go on, but I wont!

A lot cheaper in the Republic of Ireland for copies of certs.

Gina

well agree TREEHUNTER...
and MARK...you could start it i am sure there are plenty of us willing to sign,
dont forget all we are paying for is a peice of paper which is ours anyhow..

even if we manage to keep it at £7 for a couple of year's,it would be great.

lets face it the gro are on to a good thing, the interest in family history is massive and they are getting a good turnover for really old certs, but they know people are going to pay up if they need that info

Is there a reason why a copy certificate is really needed?

In Scotland we have a great site, ScotlandsPeople. I have a large number of photocopies of rellies BDM's. They are good enough for me, as I am only looking for confirmation of events, after I have did a bit of searching.

I am assuming, perhaps wrongly, that the same option is available in England/ Wales?

Gail x

> "Is there a reason why a copy certificate is really needed?"

I would be happy with a digitally scanned version emailed or downloaded from their site (like the National Archives do with Wills) in JPG, TIF, or PDF format.

I am only after the facts, I'm not going to frame them and put them on the wall :-)

They are halfway there anyway as the ones we receive these days are scanned from the original. The oblong bit in the middle is the original image which is then printed onto nice paper. There is no reason this output couldn't be just sent to a PDF file instead.

Mark.

No, we do not have that option in England/Wales.

I have a birth and death cert from Scotlandspeople; very interesting and informative. The cost me nothing as I was offered some free credits.

We will all soon be paying the increase I'm afraid. Even if we did send them a petition it would end up in a shredder!