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Does anybody know why my birth does not show up when I go to records. I do have a birth certificate, so how weird. Its freaking me out a bit.

If you are looking at records on this site it may be just that you are putting in too much info in the search, try leaving out place of birth or exact year.

edit, check whether your birth was maybe registered in the following quarter, eg I was born in 1957, but my birth is reg 1958.

Were you born/registered outside of England and Wales?

Births in November and December are sometimes registered in the following year,

You need to put your name in exactly as it appears on your certificate

If born near the end of any quarter the chances are your birth will show up in the following quarter (or even year if last quarter of year)

I was born December 1953 and appear in the 1st quarter of 1954.

And as said before 'less is more' :-D

There might be a transcription error. If the person who transcrbed your birth record for GR spelt your name wrong, it might not show up when you look for it using the correct spelling.

our daughters birth cert has the wrong spelling of my maiden name. I wasn't aware at the time in the 1950.s I could have got it amended

Ive done all of the above. The nearest has a different mothers maiden name. Its the surname she gave me though ???. Maybe i was merlin !

have you checked through to see if mum was married before??

If you have your birth cert then that must show on the indexes surely ???

Oh my, Sharon. You are going to let us know how you get on, aren't you?

Have you seen Blade Runner :-D

Just a thought, have you checked to see if its registered under your mums maiden name? or it could be down as GRANT.?

Dont forget the birth indexes only cover England and Wales on this site.

Sharon, have you checked the records on any other site?

I found one of my cousins' birth, by checking births under his mothers maiden name(she wasn't married at the time of birth) on Free BMD and her subsequent husband gave the lad, his name, so he wasn't a "smith" but really a "brown"

if you get what I mean....
Bob

Sharon, don't forget that your surname isn't on your birth certificate, only those of your mother and/or father.

So you could be registered under either of those - it is usually assumed to be the father, but doesn't have to be.

Good Luck.

A while back, I had one point left at Scotland's People.

Searched for myself...... first, middle & surname.

Nothing.

Tried again, first & surname.

Success! Sort of.......... whoever entered the information couldn't type, the only vowel in my middle name was left out!

:-(

I did let SP know, and was promised it would be corrected. Last time I checked, it had not been corrected.

Thanks all. My birth cert says sharon Ivy smith.
My mothers name was Phyllis Hodgson nee Saw.
On my birth cert it says father David Smith.
But the only match here says mothers maiden name smith.
Confusing or what
:-(

Did your mother have a middle name ?

Have another look, this time with your surname as Hodgson.

It could be that the Gro listing has been double (or triply ) entered/transcribed to reflect all the adults surnames. There might even have been a transcription error somewhere along the line.

If you were born before 1973 have a look on freebmd. If they have got round to your entry, click on the page number. That will show you all the other names that were on the same page. Freebmd intend to transcribe the register up to 1983 but they haven't got there yet.

As a point of interest, a BC only assigns a child their first names. It's convention that the child normally uses their father's surname. As long as it isn't for illegal purposes, you use what ever name you want!

Sue, her middle name was Joan

I've just checked, and it is all as Sharon says


May I hazard a guess??


Phyllis and David were not married, and she did not want to lie ........ but did want his name on the certificate.


I wonder if it is a plain mistake on Phyllis' part??


She gave Smith as her maiden name in error?