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Caz | Report | 22 Jul 2008 14:20 |
Hi Wendy, |
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Wendy | Report | 22 Jul 2008 01:40 |
Where are you looking? Free bmd and Ancestry won't help with a birth after about 1920 unless you search each quarter of each possible year. |
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Mystified | Report | 21 Jul 2008 20:24 |
Different names is quite common. On official documents he may have used his birth name but in life used one he preferred. |
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Wendy | Report | 21 Jul 2008 20:18 |
Thanks everyone - my father was a professional footballer on my birth certificate and his father was a publican on the marriage cert. Never thought about a different name at birth - I thought you had to use your proper name on documents I have a lot to learn |
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KeithInFujairah | Report | 21 Jul 2008 19:40 |
Maybe he was born abroad and on different index? |
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Mystified | Report | 21 Jul 2008 19:38 |
Perhaps your father was given a different christian name at birth than the one he used in life? |
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MaryfromItaly | Report | 20 Jul 2008 19:58 |
Where did you look? You won't find his birth on FreeBMD if it was after about 1920. You need to search the COMPLETE index on Ancestry, which is slow process. |
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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it | Report | 20 Jul 2008 18:45 |
does the cert name a father for him you could try looking for that marriage unless its a very common name then it might be too big a look up |
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Researching: |
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Wendy | Report | 20 Jul 2008 18:42 |
I found my parent's marriage certificate and using my father's age tried to find record of his birth but had no luck - I worked five years either side - can anyone tell me how else I can find him ? |