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adoption help
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Carter | Report | 11 Sep 2008 01:04 |
hi |
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Kate | Report | 11 Sep 2008 01:10 |
I think how it works is, the original name will be on the Birth Index but the new (adoptive) name is put on a different register and I'm not sure if it is accessible to the public or not. |
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Carter | Report | 11 Sep 2008 01:17 |
thanks kate that is a great help. my friend thinks she might have been adopted but her parents have died and she has never needed to see her birth cert. she is about to get married aged 46 and needs a passport for her honeymoon so birth cert is needed but when she has applied for one they are saying they cant find a birth for that year with that name to the parents named. she has no idea what to do now. she is an only child and she has her parents marriage cert and they had been married 8 years before she was born and they were aged 28 when they married. |
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Jayne | Report | 11 Sep 2008 02:26 |
Can confirm what Kate said above. |
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Geraldine | Report | 11 Sep 2008 08:17 |
Hi Carter |
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Carter | Report | 11 Sep 2008 10:51 |
thanks everyone i will pass this on to her you have all been really helpful |
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Kate | Report | 11 Sep 2008 12:28 |
Also, if your friend needs her birth certificate for a passport, I have a feeling that because she has been adopted the person who existed in her original name on her original birth certificate legally ceased to exist when she was formally adopted. |
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Geraldine | Report | 11 Sep 2008 13:03 |
Kate |
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Sharon | Report | 14 Sep 2008 12:01 |
hi read ur post my husband was born 1962 and adopted out he had to go get a copy of his original b/cert in edinburgh then we had to go next door to it to the archives where he had to sign for his adoption papers to be opened but the papers have to stay there and are not open to the public but they are more than willing to copy the full lot for u free of charge hope this helps |
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FRANK06 | Report | 14 Sep 2008 14:27 |
Hi Carter, |