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I have run into an unusual situation while researching my contemporary relatives. A female in my family has two children for which I see two birth registry entries for each child; the two children were born in the 1970's in England. Each child has a record which features the first husband's name, an...

Thank you very much for the advise @tatewise, and for the link to the plugin.  I will start playing making some adjustments.  

Sorry a little off-topic... But that's interesting @Tatewise, I had not seen that entry in the knowledge base before.  I have two adoptions quite close to me in my family tree and have always assumed that their adopted name should be used as their primary name.  I can see why using the birth name is...

@martinreed, I have solved a few mysteries in my own research using the some of the incidental information on BMD certificates. Are there witnesses named on the marriage certificate that provide any additional clues? Like the others I did have a brief look on FindMyPast and see a 2Q-1967 death regis...

Thank you very much Jane . I did locate the BMD online historical indexes for NSW previously, and agree that there is not an apparent entry for my William .  It looks like the search facility is only bringing up entries that match the surname exactly, so I did try as many variants as I could think o...

Jane and Tatewise , thank you for your input on this issue. I do know a little more than previously disclosed, although the long and short of it is that the birth certificate is lost. When William died in 1972 my grandmother and great-uncle registered his death and used his birth certificate to do ...

My great-grandfather William Ernest Sydney WHITMORE is understood to have born in Sydney, Australia and we have been unable to locate his birth certificate.   His parents were English and he moved back to England at a young age, his death record indicates that his date of birth was the 30th of Augus...