Dear Paul, Your comment reference "access to adoptee certificate of birth" is not borne out by practice, my wife's original birth cert was obtained by the spouse of a third cousin without consent from her , this would have been from the Norwich Registrar's Office. Is your statement legally correct, if so I will be following it up, it never crossed my mind that there was any exclusion as the info is also available on FreeBMD. I look forward to your reply Roger M EVANS