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Offline izonme

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GRO help
« on: Sunday 06 April 25 19:23 BST (UK) »
Hi - I'm trying to research on the GRO for adoption records to see if my grandfather is possibly adopted - but I am kind of confused by the GRO.

I type in all of the information that is required to submit, but when it goes onto the confirmation screen, does it mean the adoption certificate exists and i'm paying to get the adoption certificate, or am I paying to see if it exists? I am really confused by this - because I don't want to pay that much if the certificate doesn't actually exist.

Could anyone help explain? Thank you

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Re: GRO help
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 06 April 25 19:53 BST (UK) »
Have you found his birth entry?

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Re: GRO help
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Re: GRO help
« Reply #3 on: Monday 07 April 25 15:39 BST (UK) »
 The adoption certificate only displays post adoption information (A certificate in the post adoption name not the name at birth). The birth cert only displays pre adoption information (not the adoptive name), though 'adopted' may be entered as an annotation in column 10.

To order the birth certificate the name at birth has to be known.

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Re: GRO help
« Reply #4 on: Monday 07 April 25 15:47 BST (UK) »
The GRO is a birth registration index not an adoption record index.

What are you typing in?  If the information is accepted and there is a registration then you will get a certificate in whatever name you have typed in.

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Re: GRO help
« Reply #5 on: Monday 07 April 25 16:27 BST (UK) »
I found my grandfathers current name on the England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2007, does that mean he is not adopted?

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Re: GRO help
« Reply #6 on: Monday 07 April 25 16:29 BST (UK) »
Is it in the right qtr and place for his birth or is it a later entry.
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« Reply #7 on: Monday 07 April 25 16:32 BST (UK) »
Recently I wanted to order my Grandmothers Death Certificate and GRO did not give her references when I searched so I used the option of them searching.

They refunded my payment.

Used FreeBMD to find the references and entered them in the GRO site, success certificate received.

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« Reply #8 on: Monday 07 April 25 16:36 BST (UK) »
Does this relate to your other post  :-\
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=889666.0
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