From: MB@nospam.net   
      
   On 19/04/2019 18:07, Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:   
   > The way it worked with my maternal grandmother probably wouldn't work   
   > for you, but here it is, anyway. I knew she was born in County Derry,   
   > but I didn't have the exact place or date. (My mother didn't get on with   
   > her mother, and knew next to nothing about her origins.) I applied to   
   > the proper authorities for a birth certificate, but there was some delay   
   > (for reasons I don't remember) in getting their reply to me telling me   
   > how much to pay, and by that time the short deadline for paying had   
   > expired. However, the reply already told me what I wanted to know, so I   
   > decided I could live without a certificate.   
      
   When I first started out there was really only the IGI online and 1881   
   Census on CD-ROM.  So I had to travel to the other side of the country   
   to get access to the BMD indexes then sent off for my certificates.  At   
   that time I ordered from the local offices and several times they were   
   quite helpful and told me that a particular on was not the one I needed.   
      
   i spent about £200 getting the 1891 census on fiche for my home town.   
      
   There is a lot that can be found free online and some libraries give   
   access to some of the commercial sites.   
      
   There are quite a number of newspaper archives available free through   
   libraries so you can often find things in Hatch. Match and Despatch columns.   
      
   See if there is local Family History Society, you might get help and   
   tips there.   
      
   Search online, always a possibility someone has researched the family   
   though obviously check the information is accurate.   
      
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