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A law was brought in in 1928 that allowed you to have a new certificate issued without any need for adoption. Hmmmm.....that leads me to assume that as an adoption had taken place, rather than a new certificate being issued, the adoptive father is not the biological father? The assumption is based ...

Yes Andrew, that's the conclusion I've come to. It could be that my Dad is actually my biological Dad but for whatever reason wasn't named on the birth cert only to then formally adopt me later, but that doesn't feel 'right' to me as I'm sure you can just re-register the birth to do that? I'm actual...

Thanks! I'm starting to slowly build up the tree and uncovering bits and bobs!

Thanks, I've requested birth details direct from the court as the adoption was post-1975. I'd like to get a bit more info before talking to my parents/family, the whole point of this really is to clear up the question of why I was adopted if my Dad is my biological Dad? (If he was my biological Dad ...

I have only ever had the short copy of the birth certificate (dated 1976), this doesn't have names of any parents on, it just has my name, place of birth etc and it's in my Wood name. After discovering that I was born Dwyer I ordered a full birth cert (dated 1974) and it has mums details but fathers...

Thanks for the link, although at the bottom of the birth cert it says;
"Adopted: R. Holdsworth, Superintendant Registrar"
A friend has said that means I was adopted? Is this what it means?? If so, what's my next step??

OK, so just started this family tree lark and through the process I did some searches including myself to check I was getting things right. The problem is.... A) I've found out I was born with my mothers surname, Michael Steven Dwyer (not wood as is on subsequent birth cert - although not full birth...

Northernlass....you.are.lovely! That's exactly the kind of step by step, perfect for a thicko like me, instructions I needed! I think I get it now but as I'm not living in liverpool now I guess ordering certificates will be the way to go...this could get expensive! lol! Very much appreciate all thes...

Thanks folks! I think I'm starting to get a handle on things but....stand by for a silly newb question... you could then look it up at the relevant archives I'm not sure what you mean by 'archives'? I've only been at this for a little over a week, and all online with no previous knowledge of family ...

OK...this is what came up... Surname Given Name Spouse District Volume Page Transcriber Marriages Sep 1946 Dwyer Timothy Dawkins Liverpool N. 10d 803 Jeandan but....that's merely information I already have? How do I move this forward to get more info for Great-Grandparents? Am I right in thinking th...

I've just had a similar thing, turns out that I was registered in my mothers maiden name, maybe you have something similar?

if you wish us to step by step take you through it post some info here and we will try to find it, then tell you how to find the same info That's very kind, thank you! Here's info on my maternal GP's: GF - Timothy Dwyer, Born Liverpool, 28th Nov 1921, Died Liverpool Oct 1987 (he was, I believe in t...

Thanks SRD, yeah what I've done so far is plot everyone known as well as all known info. This, unfortunately, only goes back to grand-parents. In order to get the names of great grandparents I've ordered marriage cert of grandparents (I managed to get maiden name of great grandmother by searching bi...

Awesome, thanks for the advice....think I need to buy some ink for the printer!!

Thanks for the replies. 'tools'...I have started with the family tree builder which was a free download from myheritage.com. I've, literally today!, joined ancestry.co.uk and so discovered that I can export as a gedcom from myheritage.com to ancestry.co.uk which I've subsequently done. I haven't got...