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Price rises on BMD certificates for England & Wales

The General Register Office (GRO) certificate ordering website has recently (late May 2024) implemented new prices, following a brief site closure for maintenance.

On re-opening the prices for ordering had risen for:

• paper certificates, from £11 to £12.50;

• pdfs, from £7 to £8;

• jpegs, from £2.50 to £3.

The current availability of certificates is that you may order:

• pdfs or jpegs of births from 1837 up to 100 years ago (with the century closure period for the most recent 100 years to protect people’s privacy); pdfs or jpegs of deaths 1837-1957. No marriages are available as pdfs or jpegs.

The paper certificates, pdfs and jpegs are all certificated copies of the original GRO register entries and so all contain the

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