Im Australian, & I need2find out where my grandparents were born to c if i can get a uk passport? help pls?

Question

I only have my parents details as my grandparents are no longer around. So I am trying to find out if i can obtain a UK/irish passport as i believe that is my background. Any help would be appreciated...I live in QLD and finding it hard to find out where to get this information. Many thanks

Answer 1

I think the question of your grandparents' birth certificates is academic. If you were born after 1983, you are eligible for a UK passport only if your father or mother were themselves UK born UK citizens. If born before 1983, you are only eligible if your father was a UK born UK citizen.  A claim does not usually extend to a UK born grandfather.

http://ukinaustralia.fco.gov.uk/en/passp...

Answer 2

Sorry, but you can't get a UK/Irish passport (unless your grandparents were from Northern Ireland in which case it would be a UK passport). Try some of the geneaology websites. Do you have your grandparents full names and dates of birth/death? Do you have your parents birth certificate details? Maybe contact the Records Offices in London and/or Dublin. Also check the British Consulate website in Melbourne, cos I'm pretty sure the rules for elegibility for a UK passport have changed fairly recently. Good luck!

Answer 3

you need to get your grandparents death certificates - they should show you where they were born.

go to the genealogy section of Q&A and ask questions. find and read the above sites (google them) and then start asking questions. People will tell you what you need to know.

http://ca.answers.yahoo.com/dir/;_ylt=As...

genealogy section at Y&A

First you need to get their death certificates and then you work backwards from there. I have english ancestry, I do not live in nor have I ever been to england, yet I have been able to trace my english lines back to the 1600s.

Then you contact various genealogy webistes online (there are LOTS OF THEM) including Rootschat, Rootsweb, Ancestry, freeBMD and a few others which are subscription sites so they will cost money. Ancestry also costs so I dont use it much.