Newby here, needs help

[trish1]

Hi Trish, you have an interesting exchange rate going there ! ₤12 = Au$2

Alan,
I'm sure Trish is talking about how much it costs to download one certificate from SP, not how much it costs to order an extract from England or Scotland. Or was that a typo and your £12 was meant to be £1.2?

Regards,
Sarah

Hi Sarah and Alan

It was indeed one uncertified image - my last 30 credits cost me just over $10.00 (I can remember when it was almost $20) - so I think that equates to 6 credits for $2 - index plus image uses 6 credits.
I've never bought a "real" certificate from Scotland, Alan, my families were virtually gone by the 20th century - so I have no need of modern certificates. I find it quite frustrating that most Australian states do not have an option for an uncertified image - and those that do charge c. $18Au for the privilege.

Trish

[SarahND]

Hi Trish,
Here in the U.S. it varies by state. Some allow uncertified copies and can be very inexpensive and others demand that you buy a certified one-- and pay for it! With state governments floundering now, I'm sure the prices will go up, rather than down

Regards,
Sarah

[Alan SHARP]

Hi Trish.

Apologies. I had only just read correspondence saying that the price was going up April 1 to £12 and did not catch that you were referring to uncertified copies. I knew that I had previously had a figure of NZ$20 in my head for certified copies, so cheekily thought a 0 had been omitted.

Alan SHARP.

PS Like you my brick walls are at the generations before civil registration. More intriguing is the discovery that Row (Rhu 1844 & 1848) Parish OPR were anticipating the 1855 civil requirement to register Grand Parent details so we have just two baptism records giving us a clue, however the rest of the family were not in that Parish, at the time we are interested in. Instead the Grand Father appears to have been lost in Glasgow, or Pollockshaws. But then again was that the same Wm SHARP or two. Therein lies the question.