Hi Everyone I truly appreciate everyone who has responded to my inquiry. The thing is I have been searching for my grandmother, Caroline nee Smith,Platt's Birth Certificate for many years. During one of my mom's latest visits back home to Swindon, Wiltshire, She took a quick trip to Gloucester with some of her siblings. Now according to mom when they went to the Gloucester office they didn't find her mother's records with the information we were given. It is indeed with all your suggestions that the dates and or her name could be a bit different or off or the area she gave us could be incorrect. My grandmother had a very precarious upbringing so anything could be possible. I do have Ancestry and have used that as far as it will take me, which without indicated mothers names indicated on the registrations, its hard to pick and choose which of the many Caroline Smith's would be mine? Which so far I've been evidently mistaken on the pickings, lol I was hoping that going to the General Registar they would have the technology to cross reference with all the different counties therefore making my process of elimination a bit easier, if not cheaper????? I would necessarily just wait until the 2011 census, but my mom eager awaits and fears she might not be around to find out now at 75 herself. If I lived in England myself, I would walk into every Registar from Gloucester down to Wiltshire and back again and make the request personally until I found her. I'll check out the PRO as given. Thanks for the info. Cross your fingers for me. [email protected] wrote: > > Hi listers, > > Regarding my earlier post: > > Does this post above mean that we can apply to find out original > applications for passports? Where do we apply in England? What is the PRO? Passport > Records Office? Wouldn't it be great if they still kept photographs? > > I have since emailed the passport office with my query and they have replied > advising I write to: > > Disclosures, PETERBOROUGH PASSPORT OFFICE > Aragon Court, Northminster Road, Peterborough, PE1 1QG > > This might be of help to some of you. > > Regards > > Diana > > _____________________________________________ > > Have you considered adding "postems" to "your" events on www.freebmd.org.uk , giving your contact details? Other researchers will then be able to make contact. Click on the info button to add your postem. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >