Wikipedia: Surrogacy is an arrangement whereby a woman agrees to become pregnant and deliver a child for a contracted party. She may be the child's genetic mother (the more traditional form of surrogacy), or she may, as a gestational carrier, carry the pregnancy to delivery after having been implanted with an embryo, the latter being an illegal medical procedure in some jurisdictions. Quite a topic, must depend on the jurisdiction..... Edna - Ottawa ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gillie Ewart" <gillie.ewart@tiscali.co.uk> To: <bristol_and_district@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 3:46 PM Subject: [B&D] Birth certificate for a surrogate child Can anyone tell me who the mother would be named as on the birth certificate for a surrogate child if the egg and the sperm were from the parents, just carried by the surrogate. Gillie