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  • Please excuse another birth cert question

    Hi

    If a person was adopted out in the UK in the 1940's, would it have something written about it in the right hand corner of their original birth cert and if so, what would it say?

    Thanks muchly

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    I believe "adopted" is added to subsequent copies of the birth cert, after a legal adoption has taken place. I'm not sure if the word is always added in exactly the place.

    Jay
    Janet in Yorkshire



    Genealogists never die - they just swap places in the family tree

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    • #3
      At the registration of birth, a legal adoption cannot have already taken place, so the ORIGINAL birth cert cannot show an adoption - because it hasn't yet legally taken place.

      Any copy certificate you subsequently order, after the person has been legally adopted, OUGHT to show the word "adopted" clearly on the right hand side of the certificate. I suppose it is theoretically possible this might not be done, but as it is done by order of the Registrar General, it would be a very rare oversight.

      OC

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      • #4
        Thanks everyone. Much appreciate your help.

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