10 TOP TIPS FOR FINDING BIRTH RECORDS
The world we live in today is driven by information and data. Whenever we are asked for our details, or we fill in an official form, the key piece of information we always have to supply, after our name, is our date of birth. You will find it on your driving licence, on your passport and on almost every official record that has been created about you. It is the one anniversary that (almost) every one of us celebrates each year.
It isn’t surprising then that we always want to discover the precious dates of birth of our ancestors.
THE NAME’S THE SAME
For family historians, that little nugget of information is what helps us to separate all of those potential ancestors whose parents showed such little imagination when it came to naming their children. There will often be more than one child with the same name born in a particular place in the same year, and maybe in the same quarter. But born on the exact same day? It’s possible, but much less likely.
However, was recalling an accurate
