Birth certificates
In general, you can use birth, marriage and death certificates to extend your family tree back in time. If you can’t find an entry, there is a chance that the event occurred overseas, for which separate indexes have been compiled – though they are not comprehensive.
Scotland and Ireland maintained their own systems of civil [...]
During the 2008 US presidential election, rumours began to circulate on the internet that Barack Obama had not been born in the United States, and was therefore not eligible for the presidency.
Mr Obama’s campaign provided plenty of evidence to rebut the claims, including the candidate’s birth certificate, but the chatter has not died down, and [...]
Mothers to name child’s father on birth certificate
Mothers will be forced to name their child’s father on birth certificates for the first time under Government plans which will improve collection of child maintenance from absent fathers.
Mother and baby
Ministers say the plan underlines the right of all children to two parents Photo: GETTY
The 45,000 mothers who [...]
Babies names are constantly changing in popularity. Jack and Chloe were the most common names given to boys and girls born in England and Wales in 1998. However, neither of these names featured in the top 50 most popular names in 1984, and they were not even in the top 100 names ten years before [...]
Boys
Once again, there is no change at the top, with Jack the number one boys’ name. Thomas also retains his second place slot with 5803 boys sharing the name in 2007. The only movement in the top five is the exchange of places between Joshua and Oliver to third and fourth respectively, with Harry remaining [...]
Did you know in 2007:
there were 24,972 births registered in Northern Ireland
there were 12,797 baby boys and 12,175 baby girls registered
the top boy’s names were Jack (1st), James (2nd) and Matthew (3rd)
the top girl’s names were Katie (1st), Grace (2nd) and Sophie (3rd)
there were 1,433 different boy’s names and 2,039 different girl’s names registered
only James [...]
Jack has returned to the top spot, pushing last year’s winner, Lewis, into second place. Daniel and Liam both climb four places to third and fourth respectively whilst James falls one place to fifth. Between them, Jack and Lewis have been the top two boys’ names for the past ten consecutive years. Jack has been [...]