Information on 2006 Birth Certificates .....

[scooter]

Hello,

My wife and I went and registered Wee Alex last week at the registry office and I thought someone might like to know what information future generations might find on an English birth certificate from 2006.

Date & Place of Birth
Child's Name & Surname

Father's Name & Surname
Father's Place of Birth
Father's Occupation

Mother's Name & Surname
Mother's Place of Birth
Mother's Occupation
Mother's Maiden Name
Mother's Surname at Marriage if Different from Maiden Surname

Usual Address (if different from place of child's birth)

Name & Surname of Informant (if not mother or father)
Informant's Qualification (i.e. Father)
Informant's Usual Address (if different from that above)

The registrar also asked us our place and date of marriage and dates of birth, however these were for 'statistical purposes' only. Made me think that if these were included on the certificate then the future family historian would virtually have the full set of information! It's nice to know that my wife is now allowed to have an occupation, something her mother was not! Changing times.....

Alex of course slept through the whole procedure!

Cheers,

Scott

[paddyscar]

Glad to hear Alex is sleeping well and so in touch with his Father. He must have realized this was a very important occassion, where his Dad needed to ensure no mistakes were made.

Was this significant date recorded in the baby book?

It's good to know all that detail is being collected.

Future genealogists will have it easy - everything will be digitised from the get-go. There'll be no questionable handwriting to slog through; no need to transcribe thereby eliminating a great margin of error; the literate and illiterate populations are probably the reverse of what they were 100 years ago - so people are able to read what is recorded and make corrections immediately.

The downside will probably be, that they will be forced to use the really old, outdated technology of the early 20th century. They will be advised by the records departments they are currently reformatting the data into something more usable.

There will be multiple target dates missed, while they reconfigure all the data to remove all the glitches and viruses rampant in the primitive systems.

AND they'll have to wait 130 years before records are released because we're all going to live longer and they'll need to adjust to meet privacy concerns.

[JayPee]

My wife and I went and registered Wee Alex last week at the registry office
--snip--

Congratulations, Scooter ... I hope
1) you were all sober, and
2) that you proof-read the registration information before someone hit "ENTER" ...

- JayPee

[DavidWW]

Intriguing to note that the registrar asked for the place and date of marriage, but that it's still not shown on the English register entry.

David

[scooter]

Hi David,

Yes, I thought that was interesting, particularly as those questions were asked at the same time as the others, and as far as I could tell, fired off from the computer into the system as a complete set of details. They just weren't handwritten into the registrars book. Perhaps they'll resurface one day when everything is 100% digital?

Best,

Scott

[scooter]

JayPee,

Yes, probably as a result of seeing so many bungled certificates through the family history research I made sure everything was 100% correct!

Can't remember if I did the same for the 2001 census which was before I got interested in genealogy.....

Best,

Scott