How can I find someone's actual DOB?

Question

I have got a month of entry in the birth records, and it also shows mother's maiden name, but I need a proper DOB, and preferably an up to date address but I don't think I can get that. Can anyone help? I can't afford to join up to any sites!!

Answer 1

Try Free BMD

http://www.freebmd.org.uk/

I've used this on a few times but as per the previous answer, if it's not very old it won't be on there.

Answer 2

Try: http://www.familysearch.org/ but if the record is not old enough there's a chance it isn't there.

Answer 3

If I wanted a reason to get sacked from work (I'm at the DWP), I could quite easily enter a persons name, rough date of birth into the computer system and get details of living people, but this is against the law - the data protection act and I would get shown the door PDQ for misuse of the IT system.  Random checks are made of staff searches on the national database, and if I'm not going to do it to further my own tree, there's no way I'm going to risk my job for a complete stranger on Yahoo.  I'd hope no-one else would either.  You're essentially asking people to break the law.

The only legal way to get a date of birth is to apply for a birth certificate from the GRO (cost = £7).  If it's a recent certificate (50 years or earlier) then they won't issue one anyway unless you can provide the exact date, which is kind of a vicious circle.  Why would a genealogist want a certificate if they already knew everything that was on it?

As for current addresses, you can try either the online telephone directories (assuming they have a landline and are not ex-directory) at 192.com (which is a paysite) or the electoral roll (if they are over 18, registered to vote and haven't opted out of appearing on the commercial register), also at 192.com.  Nothing is by any means 100% certain in the game of tracing living people.  The Data Protection Act makes things very difficult indeed.