Unable to find birth certificate

[Necromancer]

only specify the minimum - I'd stick to just John, the Father - as the slightest deviation in spelling etc will mean they wont issue it ....

... at the end of the day, for the sake of a couple of quid, I'd just get it anyway as it seems pretty good ?

[Glen in Tinsel Kni]

I would be more tempted to order from the local register office and specify the parents name(s) as a checking point.


The GRO charge for a ref check whereas local offices don't and the GRO service levels with a ref check can vary tremendously.

They (GRO) have on occassions issued a cert with completely different names to those requested and other times retained a cert where the cert is quite likely to be correct but the name(s) for the ref check do not match exactly, eg Geo instead of George/ Jas instead of James/Chas instead of Charles.


You don't give the GRO reference with a local order (the index numbers are completely different)
Glen

[Fdgl65]

Thank you Glen, I will apply to the local registry office rather than GRO itself.

[rosie99]

Hi

Looking at freebmd it looks as though the whole listing of Hubbards has been transcribed as Hubband - I will report it, they are really good at changing errors.

Rosie

[Necromancer]

LRO's have similar anomalies, the exactness you mention is why I said keep the checks to a minimum  ... and I think the GRO dont charge for a Fathers name (auto check ?) - whereas the full Rerfn Checking involving multiple Refns is £3 a go ...


PS. Does 'KNI' mean what I think it does ?  

[Necromancer]

Looking at freebmd it looks as though the whole listing of Hubbards has been transcribed as Hubband

yes, I mentioned that earlier - you'd have hoped that would have been picked up - good plan, better than a Postem I'd say 

[Glen in Tinsel Kni]

Another point to consider is that the GRO index and certs are compiled at the end of a longwinded and sometimes tedious process which involves a lot of transcribing and paper shuffling, there are times when errors creep in and entries get lost (completely missed from the index and/or no cert is created).
I can say from personal experience that there are times when a local office have a record which the GRO say does not exist (my own birth is not in the GRO index for some reason and there is no cert available from them) but the local office do have the event recorded.

[rosie99]

Looking at freebmd it looks as though the whole listing of Hubbards has been transcribed as Hubband

yes, I mentioned that earlier - you'd have hoped that would have been picked up - good plan, better than a Postem I'd say 

Sorry Newf didn't notice that bit in your post   
- keep having problems with my computer crashing this pm so not concentrating properly, I was too late to post it when I found it cos as usual you all beat me to it  .  Anyway have notified freebmd about them all. 

Rosie

[Fdgl65]

And just to confirm what you lovely people have found for me - I decided to look up John Arthur Hubbard, who I believe is Elizabeth's brother (b1900), and his birth is registered at Basford too! So that clinches it, it is her birth entry.

@ Glen - I very much appreciate how difficult is must be to transcribe records. After a day of looking at records myself I go word blind lol