Genealogy Chat

Just a quick question. I've seen FreeBMD mentioned here several times as giving the spouse but I've yet to find any entry that I've search for that lists a spouse or possible spouse (see thread related to 1837). Am I using the same site as everybody else? http://freebmd.rootsweb.com ?? If so, then I guess I must be using it wrong. I recently had somebody say they'd found one of my relatives on there and discovered two of her marriages and one of her daughters but I'm blowed if I can find out how that's done. Unfortunately, although I asked for an explaination to this, it hasn't been forthcoming :( Any help? ~Sharon

If you click on the page number for a marriage, it should bring up other entries on the same page. Try it and see what happens. B

Sharon. Firstly, to answer one of your questions, yes you have got the right site. I can't add much else to waht the others have said except to say its far from complete. Afraid can't answer how someone else found info but you cannot. Gerry

Hi, freeBMD is an on going project and is not complete so you dont get every entry. But sometimes you are lucky and that is a great help. With marriages I have often had just one name come up for a page, because the transcribers havent completed it or there is a mistake. By the way, the people are not listed as couples - they go in alphabetical order. If you have the one name and a reference, some kind soul on here would probably look up the reference on 1837 on line and check the other partner. I take it you have tried looking up the missing person aswell?

Thanks for all of your replies. I had tried clicking the page number but because the person I knew somebody to have married wasn't listed, I assumed I'd found the wrong person. I didn't realise that both parts in the same marriage wouldn't necessarily be transcribed. ~Sharon J

I think the possible spouses are only listed alphabetically so you would need to look on the census too to find a match. Kim

Now I'm puzzled too! I frequently use Lancsfreebmd. For marriages, it ALWAYS gives the bride and the groom together, plus the local registry office reference number for ordering. Am I using a different site from the rest of you?

Marjorie You're using the Local BMD site. Where they exist they are excellent, in my opinion - although not yet complete, generally. However, there is a site called FreeBMD which is a (ongoing - work-in-progress) transcription of the GRO information - the central records for the whole country which are a quarterely transcription of the local records. Christine