Birth Certificates Uk are easy to order and not very expensive.  There are about 418,000 places online where one can go to order Birth Certificates Uk; this includes both official and non official sites.  The non official sites process the request faster but require more money.  The official sites are less expensive, but require more time.  I reviewed a private site and a public site.  The private site promised the person ordering would receive a certificate within 2-3 days.  The public site stated that if the certificate index reference was supplied, the certificate would be sent out within 4 days.  If the certificate index reference was not supplied, the certificate would be sent out within 15 days.  Priority options are available, in which case the certificate will be sent out the next working day.  However, in order to get priority service, one must call before 4 p.m. on a working day.  The cost for priority service is over twice that of regular service.

Mixed in with sites which provide a copy of the actual document are sites which only allow the customer to look up the information.  These sites can be a good source of information if one is doing genealogical research, but not if one needs an official copy of an actual document.  They only supply a short birth certificate, which is an extract of the original and supplies only the name, date and gender of the child.

The site which I reviewed in depth was a public, or government, site.  It stated that Birth, death, and marriage certificates were available from the year 1837 onwards, but they required something called the General Register Office Index reference.  If the General Register Office Index reference was not available, then the exact date of the event must be provided in order to receive a certificate.

The information needed to obtain Birth Certificates Uk is the full legal name of the child, the date of birth, the place of birth, and the full legal names of both parents, including the maiden name of the mother.  This last is a requirement for all births registered within the past 50 years.

If the event took place in either Scotland or Northern Ireland, then the General Register Office for either Scotland or Northern Ireland must be contacted.  For the convenience of the consumer, links to both places were provided within the website I examined.