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Hi

Thanks everyone for your help, think I have got the hang of it now.

Note that, in EvieBeavie's example, you don't have to search for real names - any three letters is OK, so you could search for JBA, and, supposing that comes on the JAPES to JEAVONS page, page back to find your Jamieson.

To search the untranscribed quarters of the GRO at Ancestry:

http://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/rectype/vital/freebmd/bmd.aspx

That is the link from the main "Search" page for "England & Wales, BMD Index".

You then want the section quoted below.

You will see where it says "your search result will indicate the first and last name on the relevant page (image)" -- and there is where the problem lies, as I mentioned above. The "last name" too often is *not* the last name, it is a handwritten addition that is alphabetically well before the actual last name on the page.

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Complete BMD Index ranges & Images 1837-1983

This collection is complete but your search result will indicate the first and last name on the relevant page (image). Once you’ve opened the image you can then scroll down and look for your ancestor yourself on the page. If you’re looking for events from around 1920 to 1983 you will need to search here.

Births (clickable link)
http://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=8964

Marriages (clickable link)
http://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=8964

Deaths (clickable link)
http://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=8966

Hi

Thankyou Kathleen and David for your help.

To find a missing quarter on Ancestry, open up one of the qtrs. that are there. Then along the top of the image there is a line something like this:-

Search > Birth, Marriage & Death > England & Wales, Birth Index: 1837-1983 > 1948 > Q1-Jan-Feb-Mar > K

Then click on the year (in this case 1948).

You should then get a list of all four quarters.

Click on the one that was missing.

You will then get a list of the alphabet.

Click on the letter that the name you are looking for starts with.

Then scroll through the pages till you find the name. If you check the approximate image number for the name you are looking for on one of the qtrs. that was there originally and then skip to that image number first it will save time looking through all the pages.

Kath. x

I have had this problem before now. According to one member the pages are not missing but the search engine has it wrong.

The advice I was given was to search on a name immediately before the one you want to find and then scroll forwards through the images.

It's a bit long winded, but it worked for me.

David

Hi xmaseviebevie

Thankyou, i will give it a try!

The usual problem isn't that the quarters are missing, it's that Ancestry does a stupid thing.

When a name is added in manually at the bottom of a page, Ancestry counts that as the "last" name on the page.

So if the page starts with surname JAMES and ends with surname JAPES, but a surname JAMESON has been added manually at the end, and you are looking for surname JAMIESON, Ancestry won't find any page that has it.

In that case, search just for surname JAM*. It might get you more than one page, but you will be somewhere in the right vicinity, anyway.

Hi Karen

I am searching the 1950's and 60's Freebmd does not cover that era.
I am sure that I have read on these boards a way of finding missing quarters.

Thanks anyway

Hi
Can anyone tell me how to find missing quarters on Ancestry BMD please?

Thankyou