Birth Entry twice?

[stanmapstone]

Mmmmm ...yes thanks Stan - I do understand about registration of a birth.  My question is regards finding a person on an Index register i.e on FreeBMD, Ancestry, FindMyPast etc. How are these people being indexed.

You asked 1. Hypothetically, if I wanted to call my child by another surname other than my maiden name or that of the child's father (let's take Toni's example of "Claus") - how would this be noted on the birth certificate? and that is what I answered, but this is a recent development and did not apply before, you could not enter a surname other than that of the father or mother.
Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/1-2/20


Stan

[california dreamin]

Yes Stan, thank you but I also followed that question by asking:

2. For indexing purposes if no preferred surname is stated on a bc how are current entries indexed? Father's name/ mother's maiden name/ a.n.other/both?

So I guess you were answering Q1.  .. thank you Stan

Thank's Toni for the link -  at the bottom of the page there is a PDF regarding Index information that looks like it contains the answers to my query. Ta.

Kind regards all 

[calvert]

i think ill leave you guys to it to discuss further, thanks for your help all. ill buy the cert and let you know the outcome
mark