Finding a person's date of birth. Is there an official register I can access?

[T4tomo]

You can only use "Death age/DoB" with a Deaths search. Please select "Deaths" for Type.

I keep getting the above on that page. where am I going wrong?🤔

leave that box blank if searching for a birth certificate / record, just put his name and approx range for birth month and you should get it.

https://www.freebmd.org.uk/ -

 

[AndyRM]

I got so far, then this appeared.

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That's how 14 day free trials tend to work...

Just cancel it once you've got the info you need, if they have it.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I've asked my brother to have a look at their marriage cert', if he has it that is.

Is your brother alive then? You weren’t sure in your OP.

 

[vickster]

I got so far, then this appeared.

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Just don't forget to cancel

 

[Accy cyclist]

leave that box blank if searching for a birth certificate / record, just put his name and approx range for birth month and you should get it.

https://www.freebmd.org.uk/ -

I got this.

Sorry, we found no matches.

I must be doing something wrong? 🤔

 

[vickster]

Assume you've tried just Googling his full name to see if anything comes up (adding anything else specific to him)?

 

[irw]

Is your brother alive then? You weren’t sure in your OP.

Pretty sure he said he wasn't sure if his father's brother was still alive, not his own!

 

[Accy cyclist]

Would it be on your parents marriage certificate if you or your brother have kept that?

He's just sent me a pic' of their marriage certificate. Sadly no dates of birth, only how old they were (24 and 21) when the marriage took place in 1956. However I have found their addresses before they got married. I knew the close and avenue names, but not the actual numbers. I've always wondered and now I know.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Assume you've tried just Googling his full name to see if anything comes up (adding anything else specific to him)?

I'm gonna leave this searching till later tonight. It's sending me .

 

[Tail End Charlie]

I googled my father's name and I found a photo of the headstone where he is buried. I did know this, I visit occasionally, but I was staggered the photo was on the net.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Try https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl

Found my father‘s entry in the death register, which includes the date of birth.

 

[postman]

my dad died today in 1986.

 

[DRM]

I think libraries can give members free access to Ancestry.com as they have a deal with them, could be worth enquiring

 

[PaulSB]

You can get a 14 day free trial on ancestry.com.

I tried them once out of idle curiosity. I did a search for my son which came up with nothing! A waste of time and money.

@Accy cyclist I don't know the ins and outs but births, deaths and marriages have been registered in the UK since 1875 when it became compulsory. If you have just the smallest detail on your father's birth it should be possible to do a local physical search rather than fiddling about on the web.

Location, full name and year (1932?) should do it.

 

[Alex321]

I tried them once out of idle curiosity. I did a search for my son which came up with nothing! A waste of time and money.

Probably not great for loking up descendants - designed for the opposite

My wife uses it a lot, with a fully paid up subscription. She has parts of both our families now going back to the late 17th century.