In a message dated 09/01/2008 02:48:36 GMT Standard Time, [email protected] writes: I sent away for his birth certificate, but the records office said they couldn't find him? All the information I have is that he was born 24 July, 1969 in Sunderland Durham ________________________________________________________________________ A check of the GRO Index on Ancestry agrees with FreeBmd in that there were only four births registered for a George Hall in the Sept ΒΌ 1869 and none were in County Durham. Stan