192.com

[Deleted User]

Hi,

Has anyone had success in getting 192.com to remove birth records?

Please can someone advise,

Thanks

squeaky

The google result below suggests that it's in their help files:-

Help - 192.com

Birth, marriage or death records from 1984-2003 (this can return up to 4 records ..... Over and above our statutory duties 192.com allows users to remove ...
https://www.192.com/help/help-home/ - Cached - Similar
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But you'll need to dig to find it.

On a different site it seems that once you find the right place they send you a pdf to print out, fill in, and send back - so I grabbed the link.

http://statics.192.com/downloads/C01.pdf


HTH

[Deleted User]

Hi

Thanks for your reply.

I have now contact 192.com about getting birth records removed and I got this response below:


These records are public information and cannot be removed.

fluffnutter

Deleted_User wrote: »

Hi

Thanks for your reply.

I have now contact 192.com about getting birth records removed and I got this response below:


These records are public information and cannot be removed.

Which is all very well I guess. That information probably is readily available if you want to be bothered getting it. But sticking personal details on a 'come and find out personal details one stop shop!' site just to make money charging people to access it seems totally distasteful and irritating to me.

squeaky

That's the thing isn't it?

Such records may not be removeable from a government database, but this mob ain't government, or are they? Certainly the page below makes no such claim...

http://www.192.com/info/about-us/

The odds are that they don't actually hold the information themselves - they just use software to grab the relevent information from the government database concerned and present it for you when you make a query. For a fee.

So they'd be right in saying that it can't be removed.

What's really at issue is them making your information available to anybody who pays for it... hmm...

[Deleted User]

Hi Squeaky

Thanks for your further reply.

I have contacted them again regarding this and they have advised me that the records are provided by this company findmypast.com. They are now saying that I should make contact with them instead and ask for it to be removed.

squeaky

Good grief! It's like playing ring-a-ring of roses, innit?

Let us know how you get on.

Good luck

Shelldean

BMD records are open to the public.
They'll also be on ancestry.co.uk.
And most public libraries hold the indexes!!

Anyone can view these records

[Deleted User]

Hi,

I received this back from findmypast.com this morning:

Thank you for your email.

Unfortunately we are unable to remove your birth record from our site as it is a public record.

These records are provided by the General Registers Office, if you require further details you will have to contact them directly.

halibut2209

Anyone is entitled to obtain anyone's birth record. This is why birth certificates are not accepted as proof of identity

Freddie_Snowbits

Nope, Freddie is not listed. maybe because he says NO to the extended list on the electoral role.