Help with stamp on 1884 birth certificate.....
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donhez1
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Help with stamp on 1884 birth certificate.....
have a birth cert for a David Donald born Dec 13 1884 and to left of name is a stamp that is almost illegible.In center of stamp is written paternity underneathis vol something and presumably a page number. What is this in refernce to? please help as very curios.
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AndrewP
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Hi Donhez1,
Welcome to TalkingScot.
The stamp will say Register of Corrected Entries (or some shortened version of that). It will have a Volume Number and a Page number marked on it. On the original certificate, this is in coloured pencil, so on the black and white images of these, it is often difficult to read.
The RCEs are not online yet and it seems uncertain that they will be this year - there are difficulties with the indexing of them, linking them back to the original certificates.
In the meantime, they are available at New Register House - if you can gat there yourself, have somebody go there for you, or if you order the certificate to be posted out to you. A postal copy of the certificate will have the RCE photocopied onto the other side by GROS for you.
As the certificate has paternity written on it, you can expect to find details about the paternity of the child on the RCE document. RCEs are issued if there is any change to the details of the certificate after it has been issued. Changes to the certificate are only able to be made on the certificate at the time of issuing, any later then it has to be an RCE.
All the best,
Andrew Paterson
Welcome to TalkingScot.
The stamp will say Register of Corrected Entries (or some shortened version of that). It will have a Volume Number and a Page number marked on it. On the original certificate, this is in coloured pencil, so on the black and white images of these, it is often difficult to read.
The RCEs are not online yet and it seems uncertain that they will be this year - there are difficulties with the indexing of them, linking them back to the original certificates.
In the meantime, they are available at New Register House - if you can gat there yourself, have somebody go there for you, or if you order the certificate to be posted out to you. A postal copy of the certificate will have the RCE photocopied onto the other side by GROS for you.
As the certificate has paternity written on it, you can expect to find details about the paternity of the child on the RCE document. RCEs are issued if there is any change to the details of the certificate after it has been issued. Changes to the certificate are only able to be made on the certificate at the time of issuing, any later then it has to be an RCE.
All the best,
Andrew Paterson
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Tracey
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When i first started out i also found on a certificate i had downloaded from Scotlandspeople a stamp mark and i didnt know what it was either so i querried this with them and they sent me a copy of the paternity which was very nice of them as i didnt ask for it and it was free ! whether they passed my querry on to New Register House or not i dont know (or maybe they are one and the same ) ........ since then i have found many of those stamps 