Where to get a birth cert?

pickarooney · 29-10-2007 07:35PM #1

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 · 29-10-2007 07:36PM

Your local health board methinks!

Mint Sauce · 29-10-2007 08:05PM

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 · 29-10-2007 08:14PM

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

January · 29-10-2007 08:17PM

Joyce House on Lomard Street, Dublin 2.

Your in France?

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

pickarooney · 29-10-2007 08:19PM

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 · 29-10-2007 08:20PM

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 · 29-10-2007 08:24PM

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 · 29-10-2007 08:36PM

Did you try After Hours??

pretty-in-pink · 29-10-2007 09:01PM

The health clinic back home is where I get mine

wil · 29-10-2007 09:11PM

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 · 29-10-2007 10:06PM

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 · 29-10-2007 10:10PM

^^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 · 29-10-2007 10:18PM

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

pretty-in-pink · 29-10-2007 10:19PM

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 · 29-10-2007 10:23PM

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 · 30-10-2007 12:50AM

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 · 30-10-2007 12:53AM

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 · 30-10-2007 03:07AM

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 · 17-09-2009 04:27PM

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

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