Hi Jillian - you're very welcome - glad I could help.
You can order certificates from the UK very easliy. It costs 9.25 (GBP - or sterling) per certificate including postage worldwide. I use the service all the time and have had much success with it.
Go to the GRO web site here: http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/ then click on the "Order Certificates Online" link and away you go - you'll need to register etc (Register/Log in link). Have a read and you''ll become familiar with how it works.
The freebmd website at http://www.freebmd.org.uk/ is where you can search the index of England and Wales Births, Marriages and Deaths occuring between September 1837 (this is when civil registration became mandatory) through 1982. Before that we rely on Parish records kept by the church - so your Edward will be the only child of the couple that "had" to be registered. This is where I found Edwards birth. You can even view the original image of the index to be sure the transcription is correct and save any errors (I checked Edwards already and it's fine).
So - what you need from the freebmd site to order Edwards birth from the GRO site is the following:
You will be asked to select whether a Birth, Marriage, or Death - birth obviously, then...
Name: Edward Mitchell
District in which the birth was registered: Cranbrook
Quarter in which the birth was registered: September
Year in which registered: 1841
Volume number: 5
Page Number: 73
It's really very easy and will probably be with you in about three weeks. I usually get mine within two weeks to Canada. :)
Cette option s'affiche sur la page d'ouverture d'un site (voir les statistiques familiales).
J'aimerais savoir comment ces statistiques sont calculées, puisqu'elles m'indiquent que plus de 90% des naissances et décès ont eu lieu aux USA, le solde se trouvant... en Angleterre, alors qu'en fait ils ne représentent que moins de 1% et qu'aucune personne n'est née ou est décédée en Angleterre !
I would like to know how this statistics is calculated. They show more than 90 % of births and deceases in USA and England. In fact they represent only less than 1 % and than no person was born or died in England!