Where to get a birth cert?

pickarooney

My old, smudged, tattered, hand-written birth cert is on its last legs. Where would I apply to get a replacement one before it's too late?

Basq

Your local health board methinks!

Mint Sauce

would guess you would have to go to the births and deaths registrations department of the council for the area you were born in or origanlly regstered

KoolKid

On the Northside the civic centre in Coolock now has a registers office. Open from 10am

January

Joyce House on Lomard Street, Dublin 2.

Your in France?

Fill in and post this: http://www.groireland.ie/docs/BirthEnglishApp.doc

pickarooney

So... being born in Kilkenny I should write to Kilkenny Co. Council or the South Eastern Health Board? I don't know what kind of proof they'd need that I'm me.

Otherwise I found this although it looks a little dodgy (maybe it's just that it's registered in Roscommon :P).

Mint Sauce

koolkid wrote: »

On the Northside the civic centre in Coolock now has a registers office. Open from 10am

the op would have to go to his local authorty though, not the one for where he currenty lives, but where his parents registered him, best suggestion would be to look up the authorties website

Mint Sauce

pickarooney wrote: »

So... being born in Kilkenny I should write to Kilkenny Co. Council or the South Eastern Health Board? I don't know what kind of proof they'd need that I'm me.

Otherwise I found this although it looks a little dodgy (maybe it's just that it's registered in Roscommon :P).

to be honest, dont think you need any proof its you to get it, i had to apply for mine from the UK, just rang up my local authoity in london, paid my money, received in post week later

Jesus Wept

Did you try After Hours??

pretty-in-pink

The health clinic back home is where I get mine

wil

can order online but birth certs only posted to an Irish address.
Other certs can be posted abroad, not sure exactly why, perhaps fraud reasons.
http://www.birthsdeathsmarriages.ie/

http://www.birthsdeathsmarriages.ie/content/bdmonline/cms.nsf/systemcontent/cost&payment

cost you about half to collect in person.

Jesus Wept

wil wrote: »

can order online but birth certs only posted to an Irish address.
Other certs can be posted abroad, not sure exactly why, perhaps fraud reasons.
http://www.birthsdeathsmarriages.ie/

http://www.birthsdeathsmarriages.ie/content/bdmonline/cms.nsf/systemcontent/cost&payment

cost you about half to collect in person.

Think the ones you order online would be a copy though, and not an original longform.

pickarooney

^^Sixty Five scuttering euros fora copy of my birth cert ??!? Including THIRTY euros to post a sheet of paper to France.
Balls to that, I could walk into the town hall and get ten copies for free, if I were French.

Jackz

Ireland: "we have ways to bend you over and give you a good ride even after you leave"

pretty-in-pink

pickarooney wrote: »

^^Sixty Five scuttering euros fora copy of my birth cert ??!? Including THIRTY euros to post a sheet of paper to France.
Balls to that, I could walk into the town hall and get ten copies for free, if I were French.

If you were here in Ireland it would be about a tenner. Might be cheaper to fly home, get it, and fly back to France. Thats crazy

Drag00n79

irish-stew wrote: »

the op would have to go to his local authorty though, not the one for where he currenty lives, but where his parents registered him, best suggestion would be to look up the authorties website

Not true. I got mine in my hometown, Sligo, last summer and was told there was no need to travel to them for it. I now live in a different county and I could've gotten it there too apparently.

Mint Sauce

pickarooney wrote: »

^^Sixty Five scuttering euros fora copy of my birth cert ??!? Including THIRTY euros to post a sheet of paper to France.
Balls to that, I could walk into the town hall and get ten copies for free, if I were French.

only paid about £10sterling to get mine from the UK, incluing postage

Mint Sauce

Shamrok wrote: »

Not true. I got mine in my hometown, Sligo, last summer and was told there was no need to travel to them for it. I now live in a different county and I could've gotten it there too apparently.

would your local authority though still of had to contact sligo or a central office, as i would have asumed the records would be at the birthplace council or central location

wil

The-Rigger wrote: »

Think the ones you order online would be a copy though, and not an original longform.

Not sure what you mean?
Original? he has the original. The official longform birth cert is the only birth cert available now, the old short form is no longer available.
All certificates they send you are official.
I have 3 birth certs, 2 handwritten, and 1 computer printed. All are equally valid for official purposes. The new ones are preferable because they are A4 as opposed to the old ones which were long and narrow and difficult to photocopy.
Perhaps you meant that the new ones have a copy of the original handwritten cert on them. They are still official longform birth certs.
All new ie "recent birth" certs are now typed except IIRC for a print of the parents signatures on the cert

Genealogy_Guy

pretty-in-pink wrote: »

If you were here in Ireland it would be about a tenner. Might be cheaper to fly home, get it, and fly back to France. Thats crazy

There is no official online ordering service for birth, marriage or death certificates. The official body responsible, GRO Ireland, will accept postal, fax and telephone applications. But when dealing with credit cards, they insist on taking your CVV number from the back of the credit card. I don't like giving that to anybody, if I can help it.

There are other un-official agents that provide online ordering service:

www.Irish-Certificates.ie - €25 per certificate
www.irishcerts.ie - €30 or €40 per certificate
www.birthsdeathsmarriages.ie - €30 or €40 per certificate
www.recordsireland.ie - €40 per certificate

Regards
Genealogy Guy