Dexter
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Hi
In the UK, I don’t believe there is a document titled ‘Certificate of Live Birth’.
Prior to ~2007 the Birth Notification Form (BNF01) was the form completed in the hospital to notify the Registrar etc. Details in the attachment.
Officially UK hospitals only keep birth records for 25 years. If anyone in the UK has managed to retrieve records older than 25 years, I’d be interested to know how. It doesn’t help that my birth hospital no longer exists. No doubt there are other records but I do not have this information.
The Registrar uses the BNF01 to prepare the Particulars of Birth form (Form 1, page 47 in the .._1987 doc). The parents/ informants check and sign this form while at the Registry Office.
It looks like the box in Form 1 is pretty much copied and pasted into the ‘Certified Copy Of An Entry’ or long form birth certificate.
Having spoken to the GRO and four Registrars, I think a letter and/ or correctly completed form is required to get any documents in the UK. This is where I’m at, if anyone has any further UK specific information or advice please chip in.
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Hi Morag
Thanks for the response, but it’s pretty clear from the course that very few people have a copy of the full “Certificate of Birth” in the UK.
It would be harder for the Registrar to deny the certificate exists if we had one for reference.
