Friend's birth certificate was dated 3 years after dob, how can a copy of original be sort?

[dontdillydally]

friend went some years ago to get a copy of original but was told it was now not a legal document and the one my friend has is now the legal one - but it was registered when my friend was 3. This would of been around 1970.

ay advice would be great as she is try(the one when she was 3) is not her real father

[NerfHerder]

Whyever would the original not be legal? How odd...

This is in the UK?

[dontdillydally]

thats what I told her....

[hugglymugly]

Was she adopted when she was 3 years old?

[dontdillydally]

not sure - in a nutshell she was registered at 3 yrs old the week after her mum and "dad" got married. But nothing was ever said to her but putting snippets together from her past is shouting something out. BTW she is estranged from her family so cant ask

[hugglymugly]

Have a look at this website: www.ukdps.co.uk/CanABirthCertificateBeChanged.html. It seems that a birth can be re-registered under some circumstances, including if the natural parents subsequently marry.

I would think that the second birth certificate becomes the legal one as it overrides the first one. However, if her parents lied when obtaining the second certificate, I'm not sure what can be done about that.

[dontdillydally]

could be that original was changed when the parents got married and my friends name was corrected to te surname of her "dad"

however she is not allowed to see the original as its been over written by this new one

[hugglymugly]

That sounds a bit odd to me. She's an adult - if she had been adopted she would be allowed to see her original birth records, so even in those cases the original details would still exist somewhere. I'm pretty sure there would have been an actual book where the birth details would have been written in by hand (that might still be the case even today). Has she checked with her local register office? If she has, maybe they misunderstood what she wants - most people who want a copy of their own birth certificate want it for marriage/passport type of reasons rather than looking for the original details.

I hope someone more knowledgeable comes along here. Or maybe you could ask in the Adoptions topic, even though it's not quite an adoption case, as you might get some ideas about where your friend can get advice. It isn't a good situation to feel that something important has been hidden, especially as she can't rely on her family to tell her the truth.

[IWillCountToThree]

That doesn't make sense, we re-registered DD1 2 years ago as we married when she was 4m old. (we'd been putting it off, she was nearly 6! )

We had to surrender the original certificate but it's still kept on the registry office database. If your friend knows the district she was born/registered in there should be a record of the original there.

[dontdillydally]

yes she went to the local district office but was told there was an original but he wasnt allowed to see it and it was now not legal

[IWillCountToThree]

Hmm. AFAIK you can only re-register a birth when the mother and father have married, or there's a legal name change. We had to provide proof of our marriage so either the father wasn't on the original, or it is her real father.

The only other possibility is that her dad knows he's not her biological father, but has his name on the birth certificate anyway. He may only have found out once it was too late to change.

Hope your friend gets some answers.