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Get your GRO (etc) orders in quick!!!

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Gary

Gary Report 6 Oct 2005 22:17

I ordered 15 certs on saturday for dispatch on the 7th Friday, they came today the 6th, so thats not bad, going to order 10 more tonight so heres hoping

Fiona

Fiona Report 6 Oct 2005 22:12

I live in America and my last one took 5 days!! I don't want to go back to 5 or more weeks!!!! Fiona.

McDitzy

McDitzy Report 6 Oct 2005 21:50

Fingers crossed, Gary, cos it was so annoying! I'm all for more people being interested - but not when the system can't cope and we the 'hardened' genealogists are made to suffer!

Gary

Gary Report 6 Oct 2005 21:35

Iam not sure it will this time around, for a couple of months after the last series, my local studies was ramed every day, now it has reduced to empty every day, even worse than before the show, i think and have noted lateley when somebody comes in and are showen the films and they have no address to go on, they trawl a while and then say this is to much like hard work, thought it would be easier than this and you dont see them again, i dont think the programe will have the same impact again.

Jean Durant

Jean Durant Report 6 Oct 2005 17:09

Oh Gawd, That means it will be elbow crunching at the FRC again. Just when it had settled down and become civilised again., Jean x.

Brenda

Brenda Report 6 Oct 2005 16:37

hi I ordered from Southport GRO at 10.10 in the morning - my cert arrived the following morning! still havent got over the shock. Brenda x

Christine in Herts

Christine in Herts Report 6 Oct 2005 16:34

I thought it was 6 weeks or more for some poor folks! More like Lancashire RO has a reputation for. Christine

☼ Orangeblossom ☼ - Tracy

☼ Orangeblossom ☼ - Tracy Report 6 Oct 2005 16:32

Ohh, I thought it was gonna be something really horrible then, like they're gonna stop selling them!! Don't do that again lol Does mean that they're likely to go out to 4 weeks instead of the 2 (yes 2!) days it took my last one.

Christine in Herts

Christine in Herts Report 6 Oct 2005 16:30

BBC: The BBC is producing a second series of the very successful ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ programme, where celebrities are invited to trace their family tree. ScotlandsPeople was featured in the last series and assisted in some searches including those of Ian Hislop and Moira Stuart, and hopes to feature again in the second series due out in the coming months. My recollection of last autumn is that lead-times for certificates (especially from GRO) escalated wildly during, and for a while after, the last series. Christine

Christine in Herts

Christine in Herts Report 6 Oct 2005 16:29

I had a round-robin from ScotlandsPeople recently. It included this ominous message ... (I'll put it put in a ''reply'' so you have a chance of being able to read it!)