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adoption question

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MrsBucketBouquet

MrsBucketBouquet Report 14 Jul 2015 15:03

Hi
I'm trying to help a friend create her tree but she was adopted in 1969.
I know adoptees have an adoption cert but can she also find her original birth cert?
Also can we see her adoption cert on Ancestry or anywhere else?
By the way she has already met her birth Parents. Her father has since died.
Geraldine x

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Pool/Poole?Overs/Hovers/Hovard?Bucket/Bouquet? Thank goodness i havent got a Smiff!........yet

Jacqueline

Jacqueline Report 14 Jul 2015 15:10

No, adoption certs are certainly not for public consumption. That would totally compromise the system

Look for the original birth cert on the GRO index

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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it Report 14 Jul 2015 15:11

She can get her original birth certificate if she knows her birth name

You can't view adoption certificates online .i believe these are issued by the court when the adoption is finalised

She can get her adoption papers through the service that handles her adoption

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Surname Fahse. Germany. Essex .South East London My avatar is one of our wedding photos of 1957

brummiejan

brummiejan Report 14 Jul 2015 15:12

Your friend is entitled to see her adoption file.

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Myatt, Hanks, Eccleston, Powell, Clungunford, Birmingham

MrsBucketBouquet

MrsBucketBouquet Report 14 Jul 2015 15:21

That's the problem Jaqueline. Her birth Mother married a Mr Laverack while pregnant with my friend. My friend says her birth was reg as WEST as that's whats on her adoption file. I cant find her birth reg.

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MrsBucketBouquet

MrsBucketBouquet Report 14 Jul 2015 15:27

She had a DNA test that proved Mr West was her birth Father.

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Jacqueline

Jacqueline Report 14 Jul 2015 15:50

What was the mother's maiden name? Surname only.

In which part of the country was this girl born?

Also...which year and qtr..................

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MrsBucketBouquet

MrsBucketBouquet Report 14 Jul 2015 15:53

I've found it!!!! Yesterday I mush have had a brain freeze while looking too hard.
Thanks folks x

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