“Understanding and Benefitting from Process Changes to England’s” Civil Registration for B/D/M Certificates

Understand original steps in getting from event – birth, marriage or death to an index; how online services impact searches; how to obtain inexpensive certificates. Access procedures and costs for obtaining birth, marriage and death certificates in England and Wales has changed radically in the last few years. Positively, the reduced costs make it such there is no excuse for not getting all birth and death certificates. Negatively, people are losing sight of what they are actually searching to get the certificate.

– Learn the original process of getting from an event to a listing within an index (local or national).

– Learn what rules and laws changed the above processes over time. –

Understand differences between original and new indexes. – See the impact of which versions of the indexes are being searched by the different online services.

– Learn how to purchase and quickly obtain birth and death certificates. – See the different versions of the certificates that can be currently purchased.

– Learn alternatives for obtaining cheaper marriage records.