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SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 6 Jun 2015 00:50

As Detective posted, the usual reason for not getting results on searches is entering too much information

For example, I was looking the death of someone on freebmd and I entered his birth year. Nada

I removed the birth year, and got his death registration at once.


BTW ............. most of us do not use GR for bmds ......... we use the free site, www.freebmd.org.uk

Researching:
My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

+++DetEcTive+++

+++DetEcTive+++ Report 5 Jun 2015 20:12

Up to 1873, it wasnt compulsary to register a birth. Sometimes family couldn't afford it or assumed that a baptism would be sufficient.

You may be in-putting to much detail in a BMD search. Familiarise yourself with registrations districts. This link is quite a useful starting place

http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/reg/

BTW - GR tends to concentrate on English and Welsh BMDs etc. Scottish ones are on http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/welcome.aspx
You might also find some 'events' for Ireland as well as the rest of the UK on https://familysearch.org/

Researching:
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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it Report 5 Jun 2015 15:37

Well without some names so we can take a look it's difficult to say why
Sometimes putting too much info in doesn't find a match because maybe a second christain name is just an initial on the BMD,S

Where are you looking ?? FreeBMD is a great free tool to use

Researching:
Surname Fahse. Germany. Essex .South East London My avatar is one of our wedding photos of 1957

Chris

Chris Report 5 Jun 2015 15:19

Hi all, I am very new to this and I am currently trying to collect information regarding all corners of my family tree. I seem to be hitting brick walls, when I find some information regarding an ancestor I use this to prompt a further search but more often than not I cannot find anything.

For example, I will find a great grandparents marriage records but when I use the DOB to try and find a birth record or a death record it doesn't find anything that matches. I am also finding it difficult to trace the females of the family further back that 3 generations as the only info I can find is on a census but that has no record of a maiden name.

Can anyone help me in how to delve deeper into the history of my family.

Thanks