How would you find out if you were adopted.

merlin68

At the bottom it says i bla bla bla superintendant registrar for the registration district of colchester do hereby certify that the above particulars have been compiled from an entry in a register in my custody.
Date 23rd june 1970 GZFDK 1970
Under my DOB it says 28/may/1968

merlin68

I never noticed myself the women doing my crb picked it up.

Wilma33

It sounds like you were just registered late (or something was changed later). Maybe your dad was added on later (either because your mum wasn't married to him at the time or he took you on as his own)?

Wilma33

Do you you have an auntie or uncle or who might have a better memory than your mum?

GobbledyGook

The date that your birth certificate was issued is not necessarily the date that your birth was registered on. My brother and I both have birth certificates dated when we were 10 because we needed them for passports and the originals had been lost.

If you contact the registry office where your birth was registered and ask them for the date that your birth was originally registered. They will know this from their records. If you birthday is in December then you might find that it was not registered until the following year and sometimes that throws people out.

In particular you may find that your original birth certificate had been lost then if your parents were off registering a sibling then that would have been a good time to get a replacement.

GobbledyGook

merlin68 wrote: »

At the bottom it says i bla bla bla superintendant registrar for the registration district of colchester do hereby certify that the above particulars have been compiled from an entry in a register in my custody.
Date 23rd june 1970 GZFDK 1970
Under my DOB it says 28/may/1968

If the details of your birth have been put on that certificate from an entry it sounds like a copy of the cert to me.

Edited to say - if you apply for a copy of your certificate it will have today's date on that bit for example. That won't give you any clues at all to the date that you were registered on.

Ms_Chocaholic

What size is the certificate you have; is it certificate about 7" square or an oblong one?

Ms_Chocaholic

Just got out my husband's certificates (he was adopted), the square one is entitled at the top "Certificate of Birth" but the larger version, at the bottom states "certified copy of an entry in the Adopted Children Register maintained at the General Register Office given at the GENERAL REGISTER OFFICE, under the seal of the said Office, the {date}.

Also the heading of column 5 of the large version states "name and surname, address and occupation of adopters".

HTH

esmy

It's a copy of the original birth certificate. I have to get copies for work purposes sometimes and the wording at the bottom of yours is on the ones I get. I've also had to get copies of my children's certificates in the past as I didn't want to send originals off for passports etc. As long as the date of birth is correct, that's all that matters. The date at the bottom is the date the copy was issued.
HTH

Erinnire

My daughters certificates got lost in a house move so I got new copies the date of registration has changed to when I went in for new ones but her DOB is the same.

Yours are probably just copies, or amendments <sp?> of the originals. If you were adopted I think there is a separate adoption certificate.

Have you asked family if they no why that date are a couple of years later?