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Originally Posted by MarkC1984
Just got the name of her grandparents but no further information, so cannot find their parents and so on. I'm wondering if birth certs back in the 1800's had info like mum's name, etc. like today's do.
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Birth certificates did yes but the GRO index did not actually record the mothers maiden name until 1911 which can make finding the right certificate difficult in some cases.
Some of the paid sites have certain collections of church records available in fact so do some free sites, just depends which area you are looking at and if they've been digitised at some point unless you want to trundle off down to the local records office and look directly at the microfilms. Church marriage and baptism books are actually more useful than the GRO records in many cases.