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many thanks M .that was very good info .that has told me alot that i did not know ,very helpfull ,i will do that .many thanks Jan :-D

Suppose I look up a birth on FreeBMD - e.g.,

Births Dec 1909 (>99%)
Smith Ethel E. Preston 2b 302

If I then click on the "E Preston" link, then the more info "here" link, I see a little history of how boundary changes affected the various places in the rego district. I also see:

EAST PRESTON REGISTRATION DISTRICT
Registers now held by : West Sussex.
(Sometimes the regos are split over 2 or more modern districts, and the history matters, but not here)

Clicking on "West Sussex" gets me contact info.

West Sussex

Centralised Certificates Office
Registration Service
West Sussex Record Office
County Hall
Chichester
PO19 1RN
01243 642122

Now, although West Sussex holds the original rego your ancestor signed, you rarely get an image of that.
(Birmingham's the only RD that gives you images that I know of (excluding Scotland and Ireland)).

Alternatively, instead of a modern transcription from the local office, one can get a printed image of the contemporary transcription that the local office sends to the GRO at the end of each quarter.

One can also buy an m.cert from the vicar, rabbi etc., if the entry's in his current register.
Old marr regos are sent to some archive, usually the county records office, and can be viewed there.
The local registrar has a copy of the m.cert sent in by the vicar, and he copies that and sends it to the GRO.
The local registrar also has his own register for rego office marrs, and marrs performed in his presence by persons not authorized to keep registers.
This would be most non-conformists pre-1898, and RCs pre-1980ish.

The cost is abt the same - there's some variation with local offices, as some have a surcharge on things like using a credit card, postage etc.

EDIT post updated to clarify GRO image comes in printed form.
Speaking personally, I always scan these. It's a lot easier to send these scans as email attachments to my cousins, etc - well really anyone who needs them.

Many thanks for your help i was looking for my mother-in-laws father ,had no luck as her mother never married but lived with the father and no one in the family ,knew his sir name ,so i was hoping it will be on the birth certificate .i have got them in the work house in 1911,and several men on that list so no way of telling .,thank you for your time Janny :-)

Who are you looking for?
Maybe we can find them on 1911 census.

https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/default.asp

Cost for certs is £9.25

Why order from register office ?



http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/reg/
This will tell you which towns/villages came under which registration district

HI Please can anyone tell me what registry office i can get a birth certificate for being born 1906 East Preston Littlehampton Sussex ,any idea how much it will be .many thanks Janny :-)