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Birth and Marriage Records
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Peter | Report | 28 Aug 2008 23:40 |
Hello |
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Peter | Report | 28 Aug 2008 23:50 |
Hi Peter, |
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Dumpling | Report | 29 Aug 2008 00:00 |
What I do is ...check as many census returns as possible and although there are mistakes you can get a "feel" for the person. When your fairly sure its right one go to GRO.uk and order the birth certificates online. With marriages its a matter of elimination. Check for the possible spouse in the records and try to check the name in later census returns. Then send for the certificate. Do you use several different web sites like Free BDM and Free Census to check records? |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 29 Aug 2008 05:16 |
You cannot see the information anywhere except by buying the actual certificate. |
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Steven | Report | 29 Aug 2008 11:17 |
7 pounds seems cheap compared to South Australia where they charge you $38 AUD to get a copy of a BMD certificate. |
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Peter | Report | 29 Aug 2008 23:19 |
Thanks for all your helpful comments. |
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Kate | Report | 30 Aug 2008 01:25 |
The reason you might not find everything on FreeBMD is, it's only partially transcribed so far. There are records available between 1837 and 2006 on Ancestry but not all are indexed so they are searchable by typing a name in yet. (If you look on the full index on Ancestry, not the Free BMD one on Ancestry, you can look at the images for the index, quarter by quarter, but it can take a while to find things.) |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 30 Aug 2008 01:37 |
Records began on July 1 1837, but it did not become absolutely compulsory to register births until about 1875. Before then, many parents did not register their babies, particularly if there was not a registrar with easy reach. |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 30 Aug 2008 01:39 |
Incidentally, the records on ancestry.co.uk of bmds from 1837 to ca 1925 are taken from freebmd, and will always be behind freebmd. |
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