Foreign Birth Register - supporting Docs

[neillsun]

Hello,

Hoping you can help me.

I have been told the required docs for getting oneself added to the foreign birth register are a grandparent's birth, marriage and death certificates.

Is this correct? I've not come across the death certificate requirement before. I've managed to find birth certificate for one grandparent, death for the other, and their marriage cert. Some Irish birth records are notoriously difficult to find, and Rhodesian death records even more so!

Thanks,
N

[PasadenaTom]

Those are the stated requirements.

BrexitEscapee wrote on July 14 2018 about his/her grandparent having no civil birth record. In that case, a church record existed, and s/he used that to first get the birth registered the in the civil record system, as church records are not accepted for FBR. But once the late civil registration was completed, a civil certificate could be issued.

The document requirements are quite specific. There is no mention of what you can do (if anything) when records are not available. So for missing death records, you probably need to contact DFA to ask if there is an alternative.