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