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2000 searches x2 and none the wiser
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Heather | Report | 30 Jun 2006 09:40 |
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Well, if you put who you are looking for on here someone can go through a step by step guide for you. |
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hooch | Report | 30 Jun 2006 08:45 |
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Sometimes thats all you can do search through all index's quater by quarter year by year :( (and even go do the same ones 10 times over :( ) I have sat for hours and hours going through BMD index searching for my dads real family I had thier names place of birth thier mum & dads names and that was it. Didnt know for sure what year they were born and how many had been born. It seems like a mountain to climb but the results are amazing if you have the patience (something im usually not lol) ive run back to the board many times asking stupid questions lol, cus I was getting no where with my very ellusive nanna. stick with it you will feel so proud when you smash a hole in ya brick wall. Good luck x Angie x |
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Carol | Report | 29 Jun 2006 23:23 |
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It is possible that you are looking in the wrong place on ancestry, depending on what year you are looking for. As you have a marriage certificate giving ages (not always accurate though) first go to ancestry home page. Then click on the link for England and Wales BMD Index If the birth year you are looking for is before 1900 then try the partial FreeBMD first If not there go to Complete BMD Index ranges & Images Births On the search screen enter the name you want in the boxes making sure you get first name and surname the right way round. May sound silly, but some search pages have them the other way round and it is easy to get confused. Enter the birth year you have worked out from the marriage certificate and put 1 in the +/- box This will give you 12 images to look at, 3 years and 4 quarter in each year. It is then a case of wading through the images until you find what you are looking for. If you still dont find them, try looking forward and backward a year, as they didnt always tell the truth about their ages. Hope this helps a bit. |
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Jeanette | Report | 29 Jun 2006 23:22 |
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if you put info down here perhaps some one will find then Jeanette |
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Kate | Report | 29 Jun 2006 23:14 |
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Rebecca, do you want to post up the details of the search you are trying to do so we can help you find what you are looking for? Or if you don't want to put the details up on the boards, then send me a private message and I will see what I can do. Kate. |
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Unknown | Report | 29 Jun 2006 23:13 |
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WHO are you looking for, WHERE and WHEN? |
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Rebecca | Report | 29 Jun 2006 23:11 |
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hi, can u help i have subscribed 2 ancestryand i still cant find my family, armed with a marriage certificate, and definate age , am i doing something wrong as im only a been member 4 a day, can any 1 give me any tips on how 2 reasearch family without all those results, i dont have a lot 2 go on regarding my family, but when i enter accurate details ,it turns up no matches, so therefore i am ploughing through all these documents, is there a quick way,i have read the literature from ancestry, but hoping someone out there can guide me in the right direction looking 4 my Cross and Quinn family from Doncaster Yorkshire |
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