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Merlot
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Purchased Certs

Post by Merlot » Wed Feb 14, 2007 3:53 pm

Hi All,

You search on SP and find the marriage you're looking for, unfortunately, it says No Image. It's important to your research so you pay your £10 and await your certificate.
A few years later and the image is now on SP, should you be able to view this image as you already bought the cert?

Merlot
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Post by paddyscar » Wed Feb 14, 2007 4:12 pm

An interesting question, Merlot.

It's not likely to be answered with a 'Yes' by SP. Requests going back prior to this year's launch of the OPRs would have been searched in-house by staff and there would be no association with your PC that could be traced.

It would have to be a manual process retracing all orders and attaching them to an individual's online account. Even if it were possible, it would be a tremendous undertaking, both in cost and staff time.

It's like buying a computer two months before the next software release :(

Frances
John Kelly (b 22 Sep 1897) eldest child of John Kelly & Christina Lipsett Kelly of Glasgow

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Post by Merlot » Wed Feb 14, 2007 4:30 pm

Hi Frances,

The cert I'm talking about was 1909, I've no idea why there was no image at the time I bought it.

I'm having a bit of a dispute with SP about missing previous searches and this was one that I came across which I thought I'd down loaded at the time but now can't access. I now find that I bought it so it must have been No Image. (I can now take it off my gripe list to SP) :lol:

Merlot
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Re: Purchased Certs

Post by DavidWW » Wed Feb 14, 2007 4:31 pm

Merlot wrote:Hi All,

You search on SP and find the marriage you're looking for, unfortunately, it says No Image. It's important to your research so you pay your £10 and await your certificate.
A few years later and the image is now on SP, should you be able to view this image as you already bought the cert?

Merlot
Unfortunately, no, as what you purchased was a formal, legal "extract" from GROS, not an image from ScotlandsPeople.

A subtle but important difference, but one that I'm minded to bring up at the next ScotlandsPeople UserGroup meeting :wink:

David
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Post by paddyscar » Wed Feb 14, 2007 4:38 pm

Hi Merlot:

Sorry about misinterpreting the question. I just assumed it was OPR because of the 'No Image' issue and the recent access to OPRs.

Frances
John Kelly (b 22 Sep 1897) eldest child of John Kelly & Christina Lipsett Kelly of Glasgow

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Post by Merlot » Wed Feb 14, 2007 10:29 pm

Thank you both for your replies. I appreciate your input.

Francis, I should have made the date clear on my post, sorry for the confusion.

Merlot
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