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Im really new to all this, so please bear with me :) I have been trying to look at the records facility on this site for someone. I have purchased 50 credits and it asks me if i would like to view records for the matches that come up, when i say i do, i am presented with a blank page and have one of my credits used, but no infomation?? Any ideas? What am i doing wrong? Any ideas, much obliged. Confused of Essex

If it's the births, marriages and deaths indexes that you are trying to see, then you would be better using www.ancestry(.)co.uk remove brackets from that address. It is free to register on the site and then free to search the index. Kath. x

I have just looked on Ancestry at the year you stated....Nothing for a C.B.. I also looked at the year after also the year before... Still nothing... Gerri ps...that was for a birth.

I have just tried to find my own birth details (so i know i have definately put in the correct details)and the same thing has happened?? Now down to 48 credits and still yet to see anything?

thankyou kath, will have look over there now! :) x oh ok Gerri thankyou, will still have a mooch over there see if there's anything else i can find... is there any reason why it would say there are 4 matches over here and none over there? Zabby x

Zabby When you say over here.....where do you mean is over here? lol sorry and hope you understand what I mean What site did you pay 50 credits too? Gerri.

yes, i bought the credits on the GR site

Well you learn summut new everyday!!!! waves to keef, minding not to knock his sore balls (eyeballs) You mean you pay to be a member,then they charge you to view the records they have?? What a cheek! Zabby Go look for as long as you want for FREEEeeeeeee and enjoy :-) Gerri. PS sorry you wasted 50 credits :-(

Gerri, I presume Zabby paid for credits on GR searches. Zabby, GR and Ancestry are two different sites, but GR uses the Ancestry indexes and census for look-ups, but you pay GR. As has been said before, if you wish to do BMD look-ups you can do them free on Ancestry, including the complete untranscribed indexes fro births, marriages and deaths. If you need to look at census info, people on here will gladly look for you.

thanks guys!! xx xx Oh well at least it was only a fiver and i now wont make that mistake again! lol Have been having a nosey over at the ancestry site... cant find myself on there?? But my two sons are... how odd is that???

Zabby remember that your parents had 6 weeks to reg your birth...try looking at the next quarter

Zabby, it is not unheard of, sometimes the quarters do not come up in view, and have to be 'found', is your birth quarter showing in the complete index?

Still looking no, it's even worse than that - you pay to be a member and then they charge you to look at records which belong to another site!!!!lol!!! Bit like charging you a fee to direct you to the GRO indexes... OC

Zabby, I have never purchased credits on GR before, I have a subscription to Ancestry, so cannot say why you are unable to view the images, although I have seen similar threads to yours where someone has had the same thing happen. Also dont know how you can look up hot matches on the indexes. ~~~~~~~~ to Gerri

OC So they steal from another site,charge us to look at it,then wont allow us to put another web addy on here? Has the world gone mad or is it just me?... KEEF! dont answer that! lol Gerri.

pmsl!! Im really confusing myself here (doesnt take much ~ honest ;)) Basically what it is (and im probably going to get told of for posting this here, but i'll remove it if it needs a different section :) ) Im looking for my birth family, i have her birth details, her doctors details, address where she lived when i was born, my 'fathers' name and birthplace, but im not getting any results from any of the info i have... i really am a complete and utter techno f**kwit! and seem to be going round in circles...still cant find me, and i have my birth cert here... so unlike what my foster dad says (i wasnt born... created in a puff of smoke lol), i know i was registered in the march, but still no matches :( Oh my goodness, my brain hurts! lol

Do I need to? lol

Zabby Do you have your original birth cert or your adopted cert (both look the same)

Zabby I have sent you a message, Gerri has a good idea there, if you put 'adoption' in the search box it will bring up several good threads, but if not formally adopted hmmm.

OOps! just thought....NEVER put your details on here of living rellies!....wait untill your asked to have a private message. (I think i got that right?) See the 'search' box?...put 'ADOPTION' in that and it should lead you to all the threads regarding adoption. Gerri