finding a birth date

[filthiestfis]

where can I find the date of birth of someone? I know their year but not the exact date!

[RobertBurden]

Go to the family records centre in Islington. There you can view large books of every birth since 1836. You find the name and get the birth certificate �7. It's near sadler's well's.

[filthiestfis]

I just want to find the exact birthdate of someone born in 1981. Will I be able to in islington?

[dot.hawkes]

Since July 1837 infact. you can buy anybody's copy certificate from the register office where the birth was registered, these are in the local phone books. If it is someone living you may need ID apparently but that is a recent addition to the application.

[dot.hawkes]

you only need to buy a short certificate for that too and so it is alot cheaper, the local office or the FRC can provide that

[filthiestfis]

so...where can i find out the birthdate? I dont need a certificate, i just want to know the date! I know the year but not the date so will they be able to trace the birthdate?

[angeldraws]

try

www.ancestry.co.uk

[filthiestfis]

thanks but i tried ancestry already. I found out the 3 month period window the person was born in,through them, but nothing about the exact date. I dont think that ancestry give out exact dates. Do you know if its possible to find the exact date through ancestry?

[angeldraws]

I think you can do it by going into 'Search' then complete the details but dont put in a date-enter and on the next view check the options for Births, Marriages, Death - making sure you look thru the dates of these - and click the appropriate one....this worked for me but i was looking for someone who is no longer with us (i dont like using the word 'dead'). Good luck

[Sammy Snake]

You can't find out the exact date of birth anywhere, other than paying for the certificate which you don't want to do.

The birthdate appears on Ancestry on a death record of anyone who has died since 1984 but this is as supplied by the informant of the death so is not guaranteed to be correct.

[dot.hawkes]

Why would you need to know the exact bithdate of someone you obviously do not know well enough to ask. Whoever it is they are probably 25 now and a grown up, it almost sounds as though you are wondering if this might be a possible child of yours that you are not sure of. If that is incorrect then forgive me.

[angeldraws]

Crickey dot - how dya work that one out.......?

[dot.hawkes]

watch too much tele i guess : (

[filthiestfis]

wrong. I am 25, and certainly would have been unable to produce a child myself at birth. So not such a good guess then.

[shammydodger]

Sammy

You can find out the exact date of birth of someone from the Free BMD register, but only if they have died and the death is registered fairly recently. I did this myself only tonight for my cousin. He wanted to find out when his grandfather died (it was 1981) and, when I found the reference, it told me his date of birth.

[shammydodger]

Sammy

Sorry
just read the second part of your post.

Note to self: Don't be such a wazzock in future.

[dot.hawkes]

actually I did just have a bit of a thought, it is a long shot but possibly there was a birthday announcement for this person when they were either 18 or 21 in the local paper, if you visit your local reference library they should hold a copy and possibly it is indexed for family announcements. I would first check the civil registration index for the quarter the birth was registered in (bearing in mind it could have been a birth 6 weeks back into the previous quarter, (as births had to be registered within 6 weeks by statute ) Then if you find the quarter, you only need to check those 12 weeks or so. It is a prctical option I guess.

[dot.hawkes]

If you tell me the full name i can check the index now for you in seconds

[filthiestfis]

thanks dot but not able to give the name out here.

[shammydodger]

In the meantime, having ******** about driving around, paying parking charges, petrol, hassled by old biddies doing their daily shop, had to put up with surly librarians, waited in line to use the only, malfunctioning, microfiche, you could have paid �7 at the local registry office and got the info you require. Depends how important the info is, I suppose.

[dot.hawkes]

yes shammy but if he only wants the date of birth he only needs a short copy cert anyhow! What are they? �3.50 �4? it is easy. just go to the local register office where they were registered, which if you don't know it is in the phone book. You only need to tell the clerk the name and year if you don't have the quarter, they will usually check the 4 vols and if you go at a quiet time, like mid to late afternoon u should be ok.