My biological dads name appears to have been removed from my birth certificate...

[GuyGarveysWife]

Exactly that really, I just wondered if anyone could shed some light. I have my small red version of my birth certificate and he’s on it, well I needed a big one and when I got that his name isn’t there, in all father details it’s just blank. My mum is still there, every other detail is right. I don’t have anything to do with him, he’s not really a nice man so I can’t ask but I am confused still.

As your Mum?

Have you tried contacting the GRO to ask them if they have any information? Their contact details are here:

www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/contact_us.asp

My mum died a few years ago, so not an option unfortunately. Thank you, I shall get in touch with them. Thank you 😊

Is he definitely your Dad ? Could your Mum have added him later ?

Do our think it's possible that it was never on and your mother added it herself?

Is there a chance that he may not be really be your biological dad? It might be best to phone him and ask him just to be sure.

If you can, go to the registry office where you were registered with the certificates and ask them to check their records.

You're probably old enough for the short-form certificate to have been handwritten.

So there are two possibilities:

• he wasn't on it when you were registered and, instead of re-registering properly, someone just wrote him on (any slight difference in ink?)
• they did re-register birth to add him, but for some reason the re-registration has been lost in the system.

The long form is the original so if he isn’t on it then I would assume he wasn’t put in it when your birth was registered, that is why I asked if there is any doubt about him being your father.
If you don’t have any contact with him, do you have siblings who you could compare DNA with ? ( I wouldn’t be this frank if you hadn’t said that he isn’t a nice person at all).

No siblings, and I don’t know(and may never I suppose) if he is 100% my biological father, had always assumed as that’s what I was told(and what was on my birth certificate), but it doesn’t really bother me regardless, just more curiosity I suppose, he hasn’t been there for most of my life anyway so if he actually isn’t my dad it won’t make any difference. Thanks for the answers everyone! :)

Where your parents married when you were born / at all? Is it possible he didn't go to the appointment and so couldn't be added to the certificate at that time?

• were they. I don't think the where is relevant

Out of interest, the only cert I have is a little hand written one with very little information on. Should I have another one as well?

hmmwhattodo - there are two forms, the long and the short, you may only have the short, you can apply for the long one.

My short version doesn’t have any parents’ details on it, just my name, the date and place of birth and the registration details. Are you in England OP?