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Birth Records
Maintaining birth records of all
individuals is an essential concern for all governments.
Birth records help governments around the world in getting
a clear view of the human resources in his place which
would greatly help in planning future schemes of things
for the citizens concerned. Birth records also helps in
determining the citizenship of individuals concerned as in
most countries around the world your place of birth
determines the citizenship of which country you have.
Normally birth records of all individuals are kept in the
form of birth certificates. These certificates are
normally stored in governmental records and are provided
by the new born parents or the hospital concerned. These
certificates are normally prepared by the doctors who were
looking after the new born's mother at the time of child
birth. The official birth records are usually stored at a
government record office. In Canada and the United States
of America, it is stored with the government of the
receiver's state or province. But however in some American
states, the responsibility for such records has been
delegated to counties or towns. In England & Wales, it is
stored at the local register office and also at the
General Register Office. As with other UK records, the
definitive copy is handwritten in highly-permanent ink,
even though the rough-draft and official copies may be
type-written.
A birth record contains information about the birth of an
individual. On a birth record, you can usually find the
mother's full maiden name and the father's full name, the
name of the baby, the date of the birth, and county where
the birth took place. Many birth records include other
information, such as the birthplaces of the baby's
parents, the addresses of the parents, the number of
children that the parents have, and the race of the
parents, and the parents' occupations
How to register a birth in the
birth records ?
After the arrival of a new baby, it is a legal requirement
to register the birth within 42 days this can often be
done at hospital before the mother goes home, otherwise it
needs a personal visit to a register office. Whether the
father or the mother is required to be present at the time
of registration depends on whether the parents were
married to each other at the time of the birth or
conception. If the two individuals were married, then
either the mother or father can register the birth on
their own. If the two people were unmarried it all would
depend on the following underlying factors
If the father wants his details to be entered in the
register, then both parents can go and sign the birth
register together.
If the father is unable to go to the register office
with the mother, but you still want his details included,
then he can make a statutory declaration on form 16
acknowledging his paternity, which the mother must give to
the registrar.
Similarly if the mother due to certain unforeseen
reasons is unable to go to the register office with the
father, she may make a statutory declaration acknowledging
the father's paternity on the same form(s) as above, which
the father can give to the registrar.
Where there is a parental responsibility agreement in
force or either parent has obtained an appropriate court
order, this document can be presented at the time of
registration by either of the two parents.
How to
obtain information from the birth records ?
If you want to get any information about any person or
even yourself in the birth records you can directly get
that information from the office of vital statistics in
the area where the person concerned or you might have
born. You can also get it through mail or through the
internet by paying a nominal amount of money as processing
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To ensure that you receive an accurate
record for your request and that your request is
filled with all due speed you should always provide
the following points
Date of request
Full name of person
Sex of that person
Date of birth
Place of birth
Mother's maiden name
Father's name
Relationship to party
The purpose for which the record is needed
Requestor's name & address
Requestor's driver's license number & state
Requestor's signature
Birth
records also come in two varieties
Long form records
In these types of records you are provided with exact
photocopies of the original birth record that was
prepared by the hospital at the time of the child's
birth.
The long form usually includes parents' information,
address of residence, race, birth place, date of
birth, etc., additional information on the child's
birthplace, and information on the doctors that
assisted in the birth of the child. The photo copies
of long form records also usually include the
signature of the doctor involved during birth and at
least one of the parents of the child.
Short form records
Short forms, known in some places as computer
certifications, are not available in all places, but
are cheaper than photocopies and can be used in
substitute of a long form in almost all cases. The
short form has limited information, such as the name
of the child, sex, and date of birth, birthplace, and
usually the parents' names. |
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