I always think of this statue when I am thinking about Birmingham. It's probably not the conventional one people think of but it is outside the old Birmingham Register Office and so has a particular significance for me.
In the course of my digging ino the family past and investigating my family tree I have had cause to order countless copies of certificates from there. I have only once ever ordered in person, the rest of the time I email the long suffering staff and and on most occasions the certificate is on my door mat the following morning. Whenever there has been a query a lovely gentleman telephones me to check that whatever he has found is actually the certificate I want. How about that for service?
If it was not for their help I would never have found my great grandmother's death certificate; she was registered under a totally different name. They have also provided more poignant reminders of my past, my own father's death certificate and my my parent's marriage certificate.
On February 27th the Register Office moved to a new building in Holiday Wharf. the new website gives the following information: The specifically designed Register Repository will house over 17,000 registers, which contain details of all the births, deaths and marriages registered in Birmingham since 1837 over 5 million entries. The registers will take up over a fifth of a mile of shelving.
Impressive stuff, I bet they are glad to have moved.
In my mind, however, they remain in the same place, at the end of an email.
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Have emailed the address you have left here. Thank you domyvou. If the article is in Greek I won't be able to read it!!!
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