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Karen

Karen Report 11 Nov 2004 22:29

Can anyone advise me, looking for a relative who went missing in 1920's. where is the best place to start looking for any marriage or death records. Have no idea were she went or the area I'm to look.

Unknown

Unknown Report 11 Nov 2004 22:34

All marriage and death records are in the GRO indexes at the Family Records Centre in London, and on microfiche in various libraries and records offices around the country. But if you have no idea about when or where, you will just have to trawl through them - it would be quite tedious as there are 4 quarters to check for each year, so even a 4-year search would be 16 searches. Have you no way of pinning it down a bit - why did this person go missing? nell

Karen

Karen Report 14 Nov 2004 17:12

Hi Nell, Many thanks for advise, apparently she met a gentleman from the Kent area and went away with him the family never heard from her again. Even harder because siblings of Milly's are dead and so no one knows the person' s name she went with. So it's a mystery that we wish to solve, will have to get someone to look in the records office, as have trouble getting to them.

Mystified

Mystified Report 14 Nov 2004 18:30

You can search the GROs online at 1837 but it does cost. Do you live near a largeish library as they sometimes have them and it is free, probably cheaper to do as sounds as if you have some trawling to do. Suggest you look for her marriage around the time she left... say 5 years. failing this then look for her death. An even greater trawl.