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lavender

lavender Report 4 May 2019 13:58

I am just wondering whether GRO still does a free search for a birth when giving a mothers name etc but not including the vol/page references, please.

Many thanks. :-)

ErikaH

ErikaH Report 4 May 2019 14:19

Not sure what you mean..................

You can do a free search yourself on the GRO website

https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/Login.asp

Look at the site for info about its services

You can search also on freebmd, but the MMN is only on that site after 1911

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+++DetEcTive+++ Report 4 May 2019 14:50

They will search for a record when you’re unable to give a reference number, but charge an additional £3.

As Erica has pointed out, the GRO site does show mother’s maiden name for births from 1837 to 100 years ago. Births weren’t required to be registered until the mid 1870s.

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lavender

lavender Report 4 May 2019 15:56

Thank you. I did many of those searches which used to be free of charge. It's still good value when even though already aware of the GRO refs it helps in ascertaining whether a certificate belongs to the birth parent of an adopted child and there are many possibilities. :-)

They used to take full payment for the certificate but return the fee if the birthmother was not the correct one for the search one was doing.

ErikaH

ErikaH Report 4 May 2019 18:58

To find out what GRO policy is, look at their site

The searches advised are FREE