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All rules can be circumvented through setting out to lie or deceive, which is why lying to a registrar for the purposes of making a registration is a specific offence under the Perjury Act. Guy - re "the registrar assumed this meant they were married" .... that is unlikely - GRO mandate ve...

"If a father’s name is missing from a birth certificate, it could just be that the father failed to turn up to register the birth and came up against a particularly immovable official." No - the law (in E/W) is very clear that an unmarried father cannot be named on a birth register entry ...

I’m not sure it’s possible to find details of a modern divorce - I’d be curious to know if there is. I know remarriages are indexed under the maiden name and again under the previous married name for females so all eventualities are covered for our research purposes. You can apply for a search for ...

The new registration process is based on that which has been used for many years to register Civil Partnerships - there is no physical register kept. One of the key arguments for the changes was to reduce costs by cancelling the use of all the registers ( 84,000 of them apparently) currently in use....

Long overdue - but a shame it has to mean there will no longer be register entries for future researchers to look at.

You can search the index of the Adopted Children Register on microfiche at one of the six designated libraries that hold up to date GRO indexes, but at the moment that might not be possible due to Covid rules. If you identify a likely entry you can order a certificate from GRO in the normal way. Acc...

The original entry has been annotated as "adopted" and that happens when the court granting the adoption application notifies the superintendent registrar who holds the original birth record. There should always be an entry in the Adopted Children Register, made at the same time, but it ma...

Depending on what the actual fault was with the laptop, it could be possible to retrieve data from the old drive by removing it and accessing it using another computer - but you need the necessary knowledge/cables. If it has failed completely, then data can sometimes be retrieved by specialist compa...

There is no other original entry as such - if the local office are telling you that the register entry they have matches what GRO have sent you, then there is nothing else to get.

The CD contains the information you need to install the program (once you have the key). All your data ( your family tree research) will be stored on the hard drive of your old laptop ( I would assume) ... once you have installed RootsMagic onto your new laptop, you will have to transfer the data ov...