If you have not already done so, please see the Tarling Family History home page.

This page is an introduction to getting copies ("certified copy of an entry") of civil records of births, marriages or deaths in England or Wales from July 1837.  The 3-point plan:
 

1] Check all the details. Be sure you know the exact name, date and place of the event.  Check FreeBMD;  FreeBMD stands for Free Births, Marriages, and Deaths, and the objective is to provide free internet access to the indexes of these vital records in England and Wales since July 1837.  Check this Tarling family history site, see the UK vital records page.  Check your other sources.  You need at least a name, date and place in order to get a copy.

NEW 2005: you can now order over the internet as well and it is less expensive.

2] Order your certificate, see the GRO website     Easiest is to order online: see the Certificate Ordering Service page, and down at the bottom of that page click on "Click here to begin the process" to order your certificates online . You can also order copies by post, telephone or fax. Or you can go to the Family Records Centre in Clerkenwell (London) and order them there (but you have to wait a week or so before you can collect them or they can be posted. There is a page detailing fees, basically certificates are £11.50, or £8 with a full GRO reference or £7 over the internet with a full GRO Reference.

PLEASE NOTE GRO References:  having the GRO reference (and ordering via the internet) can save you £4.50 per certificate - and that service currently (Feb 2005) seems not quite as slow. However you are cautioned: DO NOT RELY ON THE REFERENCES GIVEN ON THIS SITE.  If you also find the same reference given on FreeBMD by more than one independent indexer then it is probably correct.  If you are a database contributor and would like us to check a Tarling reference first, please contact us with the details and we will check the reference, but regret we cannot be held responsible for any error.
 

3] Send a copy to the Tarling Database. PLEASE send a copy of any certificate to be included in the Tarling database, see the Tarling Database page or e-mail Kevin Tarling
 
 
 

For England and Wales from 1st. July 1837 the SEARCH files are:
Births (for all Tarl... entries from July 1837 to December 1899 size 86KB. Details for Tarling from January 1900 to 2000 are also available on the Tarling database)
Marriages  (for all Tarl... entries from July 1837 to December 1911, size 52KB. Details for Tarling from January 1912 to 2000 are also available on the Tarling database)
Marriage Partners an archive list of any partners of Tarling (only) we know between July 1837 and December 1911 (April 2001: 100 out of about 700).
Deaths (all Tarl... entries from July 1837 to Dec 1899 and all Tarling entries from January 1900 to December 1924, size 74KB.  Age at death appears in the index from 1866 onwards. Details for Tarling from January 1925 to 2000 are also available on the Tarling database).

An introduction to the England & Wales civil records.
A list of the Registration Districts found in these Tarling files.

An archive references page for more details of the Ref. numbers
An archive index of all the temporary ten-year pages for births, marriages and deaths

To the Tarling Family History resources page.