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Birth certificates, registering a death, marriage, family history and correcting certificates
Application form to order a copy of a birth certificate registered in England and Wales.
Application form to order a death certificate for a death that was registered overseas.
Application form to get your birth certificate information from before your adoption, if you live in the UK.
Find out about local procedures, burials and cremations, and returning the body to the UK.
Information on requesting records of deceased service personnel.
Change or cancel a presumption of death certificate where there's clear evidence the missing person is still alive or that they died on a different date to what's on the certificate.
Search online for a will, grant of representation or probate document for a death in or after 1858
Application form and guidance notes about correcting the details on a birth registration.
Information and forms for requesting information held on the Royal Air Force Casualty Files.
Information for manufacturers of medical devices about reporting adverse incidents and field safety corrective actions to the MHRA.
Find out about local procedures, burials and cremations, and returning the body to the UK
This guide gives advice about the death of a British person in France, including information on burial, cremation and repatriation.
Find out whether your biometric data is likely to be on a police database - fingerprints, DNA sample, kept after arrest, crime, conviction
A completed name confirmation form is required for consular birth registrations in Japan and South Korea
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