GRONI. The tragedy.

chunter

http://www.nidirect.gov.uk/index/information-and-services/leisure-home-and-community/history-heritage-and-museums/research-family-history-at-the-general-register-office-ni-groni/groni-search-fees-explained.htm

Has anyone seen this?
I just burst out laughing when I seen their pricing structure.
40p per search/credit. £2 to download a document.

Has no one in this place ever seen Ancestry?
Has anyone down there ever done any research?
Ancestry don't charge by the search, they charge by subscription.

As someone who does a substantial amount of research on NI peoples, I'll maybe run a hundred searches just to find a particular person in the census.

Beggers belief. Completely unusable for the people who would us it most.

Idiots, damn idiots, and GRONI....

Save yourself money and time and ignore.

D.A.

Good lord, their website is abysmal.

And it's also the only one I've ever seen that actually forces you to have a punctuation mark in your password.

warmhands.coldheart

Well, it just confirms, if anyone's going to make a bolls of something that should be straight forward and simple to do, it'll be a government body !!!

penwise

Chunter - My OH's mother is trying to trace her family roots e,g her grand parents and great grand parents. What online sites for N. Ireland people would you recommend . Thx

NAR

warmhands.coldheart wrote: »

Well, it just confirms, if anyone's going to make a bolls of something that should be straight forward and simple to do, it'll be a government body !!!

I'll think you'll find the system was written by a private company.

warmhands.coldheart

NAR wrote: »

I'll think you'll find the system was written by a private company.

A LOT of things done by Government are done By Private Companies under contract... BUT to government specifications and requirements drawn up by some overpaid "consultant" who wouldn't know his ar.$e from his elbow. Hence they are usually sh.1t. I could tell you 5 projects my work has done recently as such and have advised on each occasion how they could be done better and more efficiently...... Needless to say we were told in no uncertain circumstances to stick to the spec..... and so 3 off the projects are still not finished due to Errors made by the Government bodies / Consultants !!

giplet

I had an ordeal with the groni site. I ordered a duplicate certificate, putting in my NI address for delivery. I noticed on my bank statement that they had charged me postage for outside of Europe, and when I contacted them about this they told me that it was because I had not entered a delivery address (which is completely wrong as you cannot get to the payment details page without filling in the address fields on the previous page) and that they had issued me with a refund.

They hadn't issued me with a refund, and I had to contact them every two days until I finally got the "automatic" and "immediate" refund

miss_scrooge

penwise wrote: »

Chunter - My OH's mother is trying to trace her family roots e,g her grand parents and great grand parents. What online sites for N. Ireland people would you recommend . Thx

Try find my past website it's cheap

Money_Grabber13579

Being Northern Ireland, there's probably someone searching through paper files for every search that comes in...

I still can't believe that we're actually going to be able to tax our cars online (and only because it was taken out of the hands of our local politicians, who want us to remain in the dark ages)

qwert_yuiop

Money_Grabber13579 wrote: »

Being Northern Ireland, there's probably someone searching through paper files for every search that comes in...

I still can't believe that we're actually going to be able to tax our cars online (and only because it was taken out of the hands of our local politicians, who want us to remain in the dark ages)

Being Northern Ireland, all our ancestors' records were destroyed in the four courts in Dublin in 1921. I remember seeing a black American on TV complaining that due to slavery, his was the only american ethnic group unable to trace their ancestry. Thanks to the IRA, we can't either. Should we sue Sinn Fein ?

Money_Grabber13579

qwert_yuiop wrote: »

Being Northern Ireland, all our ancestors' records were destroyed in the four courts in Dublin in 1921. I remember seeing a black American on TV complaining that due to slavery, his was the only american ethnic group unable to trace their ancestry. Thanks to the IRA, we can't either. Should we sue Sinn Fein ?

Not having (m)any records is completely different though...it's our extreme backward-ness when it comes to making use of what we do have is the problem...