How do I go about getting a replacement birth certificate?

Question

What is the safest way to get one and my passport was destroyed in the washing machine 23 years ago, what will I put on my new passport application?

Thanks

Answer 1

You need to speak to the registrar in the district you were born in to get a replacement birth certificate. Alternatively, speak to the General Register Office:

The General Register

General Register Office

Smedley Hydro

Trafalgar Road

Southport, Merseyside

PR8 2HH

Telephone: [phone]

Answer 2

You can get a copy here.

http://www.secure1.gov-certificates.co.u...

As for your passport you will have try here.

http://www.ips.gov.uk/passport/index.asp

Answer 3

go to the bureau of vital statistics -

may have a website in your state

there are ways to secure it online - may have to go to 'county/parish seat

all the best

Answer 4

You can go to the register office in the area you were born and get one from there, alternatively you can write to the General Register Office (if you were born in England & Wales), or the General Register Office for Scotland, or the General Register Office for Northern Ireland.

It is considerably cheaper if you can find the index reference for your birth entry before you apply for the copy certificate. Until last November you used to be able to go to the Family Records Centre in London and look through all the huge paper indexes going back to 1837, but the idiot government have closed the FRC before the online replacement system was ready (not expected to be ready for public access before late 2009). You can, however, look up microfiche copies of the indexes at the following places (though they're not easy to use):

National Archives, Kew

Greater Manchester County Records Office

Birmingham Central Library

Bridgend Reference and Information Library

Plymouth Central Library

City of Westminster Archives Centre.

Some local record offices, family history societies, local libraries, and Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints family history centres may also have copies of the indexes.

If your passport was lost 23 years ago, I'd just treat it as basically a brand-new application (just mention on the application form that your last passport went into a washing machine in 1985!).