How do I go about getting a replacement birth certificate?
You can go to the register office in the area you were born and get one from there, alternatively you can write to the General Register Office (if you were born in England & Wales), or the General Register Office for Scotland, or the General Register Office for Northern Ireland. It is considerably cheaper if you can find the index reference for your birth entry before you apply for the copy certificate. Until last November you used to be able to go to the Family Records Centre in London and look through all the huge paper indexes going back to 1837, but the idiot government have closed the FRC before the online replacement system was ready (not expected to be ready for public access before late 2009). You can, however, look up microfiche copies of the indexes at the following places (though they’re not easy to use): National Archives, Kew Greater Manchester County Records Office Birmingham Central Library Bridgend Reference and Information Library Plymouth Central Library City of Westm
