Genealogy Chat

Am I right in thinking you could once search for a birth on Ancestry and also put in the mother's maiden name to narrow down the search.

Or am I mistaken?

Thanks Jonesey, Am I blind or what, I'll have to put id down to another senior moment!!!

I think you might have to be doing an old style search.
There's an old/new switch that appears at top right just under the main Ancestry menu bar - you might even have to do a rubbish search, say for the birth of John Smith, to get the switch to show up. You might also have to specify the database you're searching in, e.g.,

England & Wales, Birth Index: 1916-2005
England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915
(the latter only gets hits with mum's MS from 1911q3-1915q4)

My preference is to always do old style searches with the exact matches box checked in a specific database, and use the link above the table of hits:
All Birth, Marriage & Death, including Parish Results
to switch to another database in this category, or the menu bar search item to switch categories, but each to their own.

only works after 1911 though when the mmn was added to the GRO ref

Thanks folks.
BS