Genealogy Forum UK

Thanks for the move grangers14, as a beginner that's where I posted but appreciate a wider audience. Thanks Northernlass for your input. Pretty sure this was not the scenario here. My understanding of adopted, even if by natural parents, is that the birth certificate is replaced by an adoption certi...

Thanks again Gardner, your reply has great clarity and I understand the explanation except for: I can find no other original/altered birth entry for my wife. I have a theory! The entry I have described is typed, so it was known at the time of committing it to paper that the suffix "S" shou...

Thanks Gardener for your response. I had already seen the freedom of information "discussion". I'm having difficulty understanding why a record would be marked as being "superseded" but no indication given as to where this new record can be found?

Hi to all, Been trying on and off for many years to assist my wife in discovering her biological family but we have repeatedly hit a stumbling block. My wife's birth certificate shows no father and has a handwritten note "adopted". Searching FreeBmd shows an entry with a suffix "s&quo...