Genealogy Chat

Gary do you mean on the indexes? If so they only show the spouse from September 1911. This is also when births showed mothers maiden name. Bob

what i do not understand is why some marriages are listed under both names but others are not

This is an old chestnut Quote UK BMD "Q: What is the reason for the local BMD sites seemingly duplicating the FreeBMD site? A: The FreeBMD site works from the GRO records, whereas the local BMD site work from the original register office records. It's worth considering how each set of records originate: Since the start of civil registration in 1837, when a birth, marriage or death occurred, the event has had to be recorded at the local register office. It is from these original records that the local BMD sites work. Every three months, these local records have then been re-transcribed, sent to the GRO where they were copied and re-indexed once again. At each point where data are copied and re-indexed, there is scope for errors and omissions. The level of errors and omissions has been the subject of a book by Michael Foster called A Comedy of Errors. No index can ever claim to be 100% accurate or complete, but by working from the original records, the local BMD sites hope to remove many of the problems highlighted in this book. The FreeBMD site offers the advantage, however, of covering the whole country in one site, so will allow you potentially, to find ancestors where you may not have considered looking." 1837 are the GRO Records, they are not complete, fact. Bob

Garry, I thought I was the only one who can`t find their relitives on the 1837 My Grandfather was born 1841 so I thought maybe he hadn`t been registered but I can`t find his marriage either . I`ve Tried 3 years either side and still no luck. Mary

As far as I know, if the records were there, then they were copied and are on the site. If the marriage was not in England or Wales, you will not find it, as 1837 is for those two countries only. Also, transcription errors did happen, so the spelling may be different. Paul

as i had some credits left, looking at the 1901 census my mother had 2 aunts and an uncle, she knew the uncle and 1 of the aunts and asumed as her and the family had no recalection of the other aunt she must have died young. so i went on 1837 online and her name was ethel annie caudwell born 1891, i found her birth o.k. so i started on the marriages starting when she would have been 20 and loaded all caudwells and at 1922 found her marriage in the Jan/feb/mar qtr 1922, married whiteley j now i went to the name whitely jan/feb/mar qtr 1922 and there he was joseph h whiteley, married caudwell, so if you get what i mean you could back to back check their entry. but my g uncle frank caudwell married a pitt and my great aunt Ethel married a Slack, and when i looked at the Pitt And Slack entries for those dates they were not listed, so how compleat are the records on this site, if i was coming from the other family and i was looking for william slacks marriage to my great aunt but did not no her name i would not find it, it is listed as a caudwell marriage but not a slack marriage so 2 out of 3 of my rellies were not compleat as i see it so how many others are not finding a marriage because they do not know both names, so how compleat is the site, it trys to tell you it is compleat without exception.