Genealogy Chat

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Adding to this thread so that I can find it again easily!! Having the same probs as you Elaine! So using the 'old' ancestry email addy to get me in there to find spouses! Thanks Richard!!! GRRRRRR!! What Fun! ;o)) Kim

http://www.ancestry(.)co.uk/search/rectype/vital/freebmd/bmd.aspx Remove bracket this will take you to images the same as what's on 1837 site and its FREE to search

Hi Elaine I notice you said free Ancestry I am spending a fortune on sites are there free one out there as very new to this. Helen

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oh good its hard trying to explain by writing it down Jeanette

Jeanette - thanks for that - understood now !! Sue - thanks for old link - I´ll stick to that for a while until they have sorted the rest out !

that address just comes up saying about free trial on Ancestry Jeanette

Mine all looks the same as before I can't get any extra, I have no extra additions. Diane

when you have put your search in on the left hand side you have got other things you can click freebmd 1837-1983 or births 1984 and so on like before. I think it must be a mistake with ancestry why numbers are missed off Narrow Your Search Record Type: Birth, Marriage, & Death England & Wales, FreeBMD Index: 1837-1983 England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index: 1837-1983 England & Wales, Birth Index: 1984-2000 England & Wales, FreeBMD Marriage Index: 1837-1983 England & Wales, Marriage Index: 1984-2000 Staffordshire, England: Parish and Probate Records England & Wales, Death Index: 1984-2002 See more.. all down left handside as before

No - I am still not getting it - sorry Jeanette but don´t understand your instructions. Can some one please give me the web address of the OLD style Ancestry BMD index

if you then click on side (left) look down find albert biddulph it works. But if you dont and just click on it there is no number Albert Biddulph Year of Registration: 1903 Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec District: Stoke Upon Trent County: Staffordshire Volume: 6b clicking on left hand side Biddulph, Albert Record Type: Marriages Quarter: June Year: 1903 District: Leek County: Staffordshire Volume: 6b Page: 492 (click to see others on page) just click on this on left in Ancestry Narrow Your Search Record Type: Birth, Marriage, & Death England & Wales, FreeBMD Index: 1837-1983 perhaps its a blip

Sorry Jess - am I being thick here. I start on www.ancestry(.)co(.)uk The only option I then have is to click on England and Wales BMD Index Beta - to the right of the census years listing. I then get the option to search the Beta Index or the Free BMD index. The Free BMD index is now divided into three separate categories, death index, marriage index and birth index. I go into Marriage - enter Albert Biddulph 1903 (which I know is right) and up comes Albert Biddulph 1903 Apr-May-Jun Leek Staffordshire I click on view record and I get Albert Biddulph Year of Registration: 1903 Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun District: Leek County: Staffordshire Volume: 6b but there is no option to see others on this record

Ah I see the problem now - you are using different databases! The old Ancestry FreeBMD database (which includes births, marriages & deaths in the single database) is working normally: http://www.ancestry*co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=5963 However, they have added 3 new databases, which appear to be the same FreeBMD data as above, but split up into births/deaths/marriages. These are the databases that seem to be having teething problems: http://www.ancestry*co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=8912 (births) http://www.ancestry*co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=8913 (marriages) http://www.ancestry*co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=8914 (deaths) Richard

ANCESTRY,on the main page if you click on, England & Wales, FreeBMD Index: 1837-1983 then on the right hand side of the page click on, New Addition! Ancestry.co.uk have now added a simple way to search the complete images of the England & Wales, Birth-Marriage-Death index. Search the complete England & Wales, BMD Index: 1837-1983 now! their are two boxes, the top one is, Search the complete images, the second is, Search the partial FreeBMD index, 1837-1983 if you click on the second, partial freeBMD, when you search this it gives you the normal info but does not give you the page number? anymore

seems ok to me. normal ancestry exact search BDM- which is at the bottom of the list of availible census years list (not beta bit) View Record Biddulph, Albert 1903 June Marriages Leek Staffordshire View Record Bowyer, Leah 1903 June Marriages Leek Staffordshire View Record Hammond, William 1903 June Marriages Leek Staffordshire View Record Lea, Annie 1903 June Marriages Leek Staffordshire

Georgina - if you managed to get that from Ancestry, then your Ancestry and my Ancestry must be different !! I know it was there yesterday as I looked it up and printed it out - but I can´t get back to it today!

its working fine for me now got all numbers back and can see names that go with like before can't see no change Jeanette

Oh I am sorry Elaine I am still half asleep. This is the same entry from Ancestry (only the Beta records are different) Biddulph, Albert 1903 June Marriages Leek Staffordshire Bowyer, Leah 1903 June Marriages Leek Staffordshire Hammond, William 1903 June Marriages Leek Staffordshire Lea, Annie 1903 June Marriages Leek Staffordshire Name: Biddulph, Albert Record Type: Marriages Quarter: June Year: 1903 District: Leek County: Staffordshire Volume: 6b Page: 492 (click to see others on page) Georgina.

Richard, Can understand that - but the problem is at the moment you can´t even view the record to find out who the husband or wife might have been!