Hello List Rosemary, thanks for advising your post (copied below). What a pity the name was incorrect!. Was this a transcription or a digital copy of the original record? If it was a transcription, perhaps you may be able to request a scan of the actual record. It is interesting you say that most babies were just registered with the parents' names and not the name of the child, as I had not realised this was the common practice. Cheers Maureen Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 07:24:50 +0200 From: "Rosemary Taylor" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [INDIA] INDIA Digest, Vol 8, Issue 199 Hi Maureen, I tried to track my husband's Birth reg. and was delighted to find it registered! However, when I went into it and checked, his parents names are down as CEK JAYLOR and JM JAYLOR instead of TAYLOR. All other information on the entry is correct, so I know it was the right one! You are able to print it off, which indeed I did, however, it is worthless to us. It would have been priceless, as he has always been given to understand that the registers has been destroyed in a fire, and he has had to use his Baptism certificate as proof of age and parentage. It is free to access and download, so in theory one should be able to enter any name and date of birth and check. I initially just put in the date of birth, as most babies (indeed mine were too) just registered with the parents names and not the name of the child. Regards Rosemary ------------------------------ To contact the INDIA list administrator, send an email to [email protected] To post a message to the INDIA mailing list, send an email to [email protected] __________________________________________________________ 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 email with no additional text. End of INDIA Digest, Vol 8, Issue 201 *************************************