Copy Certificates and Family HistoryCopy Certificates
If you require a copy of an entry you can either call in or write to us at:
The Register Office
Ground Floor
Castle House
Glebeland Street
Merthyr Tydfil
CF47 8AT
Fees
All certificates issued from a current register (still in the Registrar's custody, approximately within 6 months of registration) are £3.50
Certificates issued from a full register (in the Superintendent Registrar's custody) are:
- Short Birth Certificate: £5.50
- Standard Full Birth Certificate: £7.00
- Death Certificate: £7.00
- Marriage Certificate: £7.00
Please make all cheques and postal orders out to Superintendent Registrar.
Please note certificates are not available on a while you wait service, there is a waiting time of up to 2 weeks for family history certificates and up to 5 days for any other certificates during busy periods.
Family History
Tracing family history is exciting and rewarding but can be time consuming and complicated.
The first step is to gather all the information you can from relatives. Any documents such as wills, birth, death and marriage certificates, family bibles and newspaper cuttings. Draw up a basic family tree to give you an idea of the gaps you will need to fill. Then work backwards using information already known about relatives.
Civil registration of births, deaths and marriages started on 1 July 1837 and so our records go back to then.
Please note we do not hold records of divorces.
The minimum information we require to start a trace on any entry is the registration district, a year and a name. However the more information you supply the higher the odds are of us finding the entry. If you are unsure of the year or district you will need to search the Family Records Indexes held at:
The Family Records Centre
1 Myddleton Street
London
08702437788
www.familyrecords.gov.uk
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