Genealogy Chat

Anyone know what I can do with some old certificates. If not they are going to be throw away, cause I can't keep them any more as they aren't even part of our family.

One is an original death cert. which would really be a shamee to throw out but....... I don't know what to do with it.

I REALLY need someone to take them off my hands. And no I don't know of any family history center's around here.

Is it me or...... ?

RMS - did you delete yesterdays thread. I'm sure on one of several that replied :-S

No it's not you - I also replied on it.

I think part of the problem here is that RMS is in Canada and most of the helpful suggestions involved contacting off-line UK FH centres etc.

Perhaps we could help more if we knew the surnames involved. I'm sure some of the people who do "One Name Studies" would be interested.

I suggested adding postems to Freebmd or looking at family tree magazines/websites as many of them do swops.

But maybe they weren't UK certificates.

This one certainly has a section on unwanted certs:
http://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/forum/

Don't know if this was suggested on the other thread?

http://www.certificate-exchange.co.uk/index.php

Wouldn't be a quick fix, though
Also don't know if suitable for someone not living in UK, or if the certs aren't UK certs.

NO you aren't going crazy, I did delete the other one because I have been told, more than once and I do learn from my mistakes, sometimes, sort of, that you can only have one thread saying the same thing on at a time

Yes, there were some helpful suggestions, but until I have enough money for food, and lodging I am afraid none of them would work for me. :-(. I might even like running all over the country side but that takes money too.
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I added them to Freebmd some time ago and I just added them to certificate exchange but that still means I have to keep them when I really need to send them somewhere else.

The surnames are Rawsthorn and Imms

Have you done the most obvious thing? Looked in search trees on here?

Well, I give it over a month, There was only two people on here, one I appaerntly asked in 2011 and she still doesn't want it and the other one said she wanted it so I wrote and asked where to send it but I haven't heard back and in fact she never even opened the letter.

So now what????? :-S

You could scan it and send it to her as an attachment - if she doesn't open it, that's her problem - and then bin the paper original, if that doesn't go against the genealogy grain too much.

Sacrilege!