Hi Jenny I think its one of those situations where there is no perfect one size fits all answer The theory is that the time should only be noted on a twin birth but its well reported that some Registrars simply misunderstood and put it on all registrations in the earlier years, that plus the question I mentioned over still births means you can only check as far as you can Unfortunately some people will believe what they want to, if they want to believe there were twins in the family nothing will persuade them otherwise The same goes with various other things, people will simply not accept the obvious sometimes no matter what they are told (I don't mean in this particular case by the way :-) Best wishes Nivard Ovington, in Cornwall (UK) > HI Nivard > > I had wondered if there had been a still born twin and so only one is > registered. But if that was the case maybe the time should not have been > put on the certificate of the surviving twin. > > regards > Jenny DeAngelis > Spain.