Help to find a birth

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vivienne
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Help to find a birth

Post by vivienne » Sun Mar 25, 2007 3:30 pm

Hello everybody,
I am new to this forum, please can anyone tell me how to find a birth in scotland in 1929/1930.Unfortunatly all i have is a name i really dont know how to find it any help out there please thankyou Viv
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Post by emanday » Sun Mar 25, 2007 3:54 pm

Hello Vivienne,

A warm welcome to Talking Scot :D

From your question, you are probably already aware that birth records after 1906 aren't available online.

You will have to apply to GROS (General Records Office of Scotland) for this. This link is to their page which gives details on how to apply
http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/famrec/bdm.html

However, I'm not sure how much they will be able to do with only a name and two possible years. Still, it wouldn't do any harm to contact them.
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Post by DavidWW » Sun Mar 25, 2007 7:03 pm

emanday wrote:......snipped.............

However, I'm not sure how much they will be able to do with only a name and two possible years. Still, it wouldn't do any harm to contact them.
It all depends on whether we're talking a John SMITH or an Ezekiel McHoughmagandy FERRETWARBLER !

Seriously, if there is a middle name, there's a good chance of success, even with SMITH; if there isn't a middle name it's all down to how commonly occurring the given and surnames are.

David