Thread: blank certificates

Hi

Please could anyone recommend a site where I could download blank marriage.birth certificates.

thank you

Maggie

Not sure I know what you mean?

Hi Jeuel,



I think maggie means something like this :- http://www.discoveryourancestors.com...downloads.html



On these you can enter the information from the censuses. I am not sure if they do them for BMD although there are ones available for the USA. If there is a site, I can't find one but would be interested too. I have some certificates that are beginning to fade and would like to re-write the info before I can no longer see them. I have a few original ones from the 1800's which are as good as new. The copies from the GRO are fading after a couple of years.

Hello,

You won't be able to buy such forms in their blank condition.



In the UK (as in most other countries) the only people who can legally write birth, marriage, or death certs are officially recognised Registrars. It is an offence to duplicate blank Registration certificates in the same way as it is to duplicate blank Court Forms or two sided bank notes.



The only way you can get duplicates for faded certs is to buy new ones from the GRO, or design your own, making them very different from the official blank ones.



In the not too distant future, there won't be such things as paper certs in the UK. You will only be able to get commemoration ones at a price. Everything will be digitised on a "life form" kept by the GRO showing when you were born, married, and died, and other types of events, like when you got your drivers licence. This new move by the powers that be will have a big knock on effect to family historians of the future.



Victoria

[quote name='Victoria']Hello,

You won't be able to buy such forms in their blank condition.



In the UK (as in most other countries) the only people who can legally write birth, marriage, or death certs are officially recognised Registrars. It is an offence to duplicate blank Registration certificates in the same way as it is to duplicate blank Court Forms or two sided bank notes.

Victoria[/quote]



Phew! that's a relief, Victoria. I was going to look into the issue, but thanks - you've answered my concerns.

Thank you for your responses.

Maggie

[quote name='Victoria']



In the not too distant future, there won't be such things as paper certs in the UK.

Victoria[/quote]



That is why I want to save mine.



Maggiet,



I don't know if you have a tree maker but if you have check to see if you can make certificates on there. I had loads which had pretty borders which I decided to replace with proper ones. It looks like it is back to the ones I destroyed. I won't be spending money on replacement ones that will again be faded in a few years.

Thank you Starlight for your very helpful reply. I have just been given a Family Tree Maker programme but have not had time to use it yet,

Thanks again

Have a nice weekend

Maggie

I suppose you could get an existing one, blank out the information and photocopy it, then fill them in with the info that you wish to keep



Or there's a backstreet in London somewhere, for a fee, you can get a complete new identity, passport etc!!!!

[quote name='Starlight']That is why I want to save mine

It looks like it is back to the ones I destroyed. I won't be spending money on replacement ones that will again be faded in a few years. [/quote]



Me neither, Star.