National Archives fail

[lethargic_man]

Estimate for sending me, on paper, the naturalisation certificates, of one great-great-grandfather and the brother of a second: £2.60. (A couple of pages each.)

Estimate for emailing me the naturalisation certificate of my patrilineal great-great-grandfather: £99.60. (27 A3 sheets to be copied, 10 A4 sheets, and a charge for burning to a CD-ROM.)

I don't think so.

(I really want to see that document: this is the great-great-grandfather that (according to his daughter in her old age) stole someone else's surname. The naturalisation certificate will give me his parents' forenames, their surname, which ought to prove the case one way or t'other, and may tell me whether the family was settled in Constantinople for more than a single generation.)

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[hatam-soferet.livejournal.com]

And scanning the results probably involves copying them first. And possibly they aren't set up to email large files (office policies, etc).