Genealogy Chat

I need to send away for my grandaughters birth cert
i have put all the info on GRO but this keeps comming up ....

Date of birth must be a valid non future date in format dd mm yy .

Date of registration must be a valid non future date in format mm yy
i have put her date of birth in ** april 1995 ..and as ** 04 .1995
but it just wont accept it am i doing something wrong .
Thanks Hazelx

looks like it means ie 22 04 95

Too many digits in the year? It's asking for 2 digits and you're putting 4?

Mary

Hi Shirley yes i put 22 04 1995. but it wont accept it

Yes Contrary Mary im putting in 22 04 1995 it wont accept that so i tried 22 april 1995 and it wont accept that either .
what am i doing wrong lol

Try putting 22 04 95.

It's asking for just 2 digits for the year not 4.

Mary

Mary , no it still wont let me do it ..

Maybe the site is having a wobbly I would log out of it and try again

have you ticked you have the GRO ref maybe that want it wants too. i know for newer birth certs you need all the info but maybe it wants to cross check it all . if it doesnt work can only suggest you contact the GRO on Monday.

thank you Shirley i'll try once more if not
i'll do as you say and get in touch with them on monday
but thank you for your help.
And thank you too Mary
it's appreciated .
Hazelx

The format for entering the date is

dd/mm/yyyy i.e. 12/04/1995


you need the slashes, and four numbers for the year, no spaces the year must also correspond with the year that you have entered on the first page.

Just tested it now and it works!

Hi Shirley i'm getting the hang of it,
and Contrary Mary .
I phoned the GRO this morning and was able to get the birth cert
that i wanted they are going to send it Priority which is dearer but son said that doesn't matter as he needs it sooner rather than later ..
She also said that why i couldn't get anywhere on line with it, was because she was a minor ..under 16 yrs old ..
thank you both for your help .
Hazelx

Hi InspectorGreen Pen ,
thank you for your help i will go and have a try
although i have now sent for it ,but your info
will maybe come in handy for another time for me
Thank you
Hazelx

Hi Lady Cutie

Ah, that explains why then.....at least you've managed to order it now, that's the main thing. :-))

Mary

Glad its sorted ,
Some time ago when the LRO was still open i used to go there with my FHS and look up the BIG ledgers for BMDS and order the certs there. My sis in Canada needed certified copies of her marriage cert , her & her OH birth certs, and her daughters cert as they were taking Canadian citizenship and photo copies weren't acceptable I had to take her email request with the order forms and explain why they were needed and get the forms authorised before they would put through the order ,all this because they were under 50 years old

As far as I can tell there is no under 16 restriction when ordering on line, so I have no idea where that suggestion came from. I think you were being fobbed off.....!

I have just ordered the birth cert for my grandson - or at least have entered all the details which have been accepted, up to the point where you go to the checkout - with no problem at all.

You do need to provide just about everything such as full dob and mother and father's full names as all these fields are mandatory.