UK Marriage Record Search

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Mark Stevens

UK Marriage Record Search

Legg inn av Mark Stevens » 05 feb 2007 16:18:57

I'm using ancestry.com for doing most of my research. The most frustrating
task for me is trying to get a marriage certificate for someone going back a
100 years or more when the dates, places, aren't known. So basically you
have to search the whole country over 10 or 20 years. I did use to narrow
things down a bit but got stuck on one when I found them they got married 20
years before their first child and moved from one end of the country to the
other! Add to this a couple of common names and the task becomes huge.

Why don't Ancestry.com or others have a decent search where you can enter
the names of both partners and it will do an intelligent search matching
district, volume and pages? Or at least score the finds where more things
match. Are there other UK searches which have a feature like this on the old
format data (where they didn't show the spouse)?

I would do my own searches if I could get hold of the index data (not
interested in the images). S&N do seem to have some but at ridiculous
prices. Are there any other sets of just the name, year, quarter, volume and
page?

Thanks

Lesley Robertson

Re: UK Marriage Record Search

Legg inn av Lesley Robertson » 05 feb 2007 19:20:36

"Mark Stevens" <sparkz@talk21.com> schreef in bericht
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I would do my own searches if I could get hold of the index data (not
interested in the images). S&N do seem to have some but at ridiculous
prices. Are there any other sets of just the name, year, quarter, volume
and page?

Have you tried FreeBMD?

Lesley Robertson

Hugh Watkins

Re: UK Marriage Record Search

Legg inn av Hugh Watkins » 05 feb 2007 22:13:49

Mark Stevens wrote:

I'm using ancestry.com for doing most of my research. The most frustrating
task for me is trying to get a marriage certificate for someone going back a
100 years or more when the dates, places, aren't known. So basically you
have to search the whole country over 10 or 20 years. I did use to narrow
things down a bit but got stuck on one when I found them they got married 20
years before their first child and moved from one end of the country to the
other!

very unlikely in a time of no contraception

You probaly have got two couples mixed up :-(

Add to this a couple of common names and the task becomes huge.

expect to take years like the rest of us

Why don't Ancestry.com or others have a decent search where you can enter
the names of both partners and it will do an intelligent search matching
district, volume and pages? Or at least score the finds where more things
match. Are there other UK searches which have a feature like this on the old
format data (where they didn't show the spouse)?

I would do my own searches if I could get hold of the index data (not
interested in the images).

the images are the original
all indexes have errors

S&N do seem to have some but at ridiculous
prices. Are there any other sets of just the name, year, quarter, volume and
page?

unless you name who you are looking for
don't expect any help from generalities

original records are held locally and not many are on line

Hugh W

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http://www.ingerlisekristoffersen.dk/

Beta blogger
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old blogger GENEALOGE
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Mark Stevens

Re: UK Marriage Record Search

Legg inn av Mark Stevens » 10 feb 2007 17:37:00

Thanks for the info.

Actually I did find the one I was after. It turned out it was their second
child 20 years after they got married not the first. They moved from Epsom
to up near Kendal. Over to the USA for 5 years then back to Bournemouth!

Mark

"Hugh Watkins" <hugh.watkins@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Mark Stevens wrote:

I'm using ancestry.com for doing most of my research. The most
frustrating task for me is trying to get a marriage certificate for
someone going back a 100 years or more when the dates, places, aren't
known. So basically you have to search the whole country over 10 or 20
years. I did use to narrow things down a bit but got stuck on one when I
found them they got married 20 years before their first child and moved
from one end of the country to the other!

very unlikely in a time of no contraception

You probaly have got two couples mixed up :-(

Add to this a couple of common names and the task becomes huge.

expect to take years like the rest of us

Why don't Ancestry.com or others have a decent search where you can enter
the names of both partners and it will do an intelligent search matching
district, volume and pages? Or at least score the finds where more things
match. Are there other UK searches which have a feature like this on the
old format data (where they didn't show the spouse)?

I would do my own searches if I could get hold of the index data (not
interested in the images).

the images are the original
all indexes have errors

S&N do seem to have some but at ridiculous prices. Are there any other
sets of just the name, year, quarter, volume and page?

unless you name who you are looking for
don't expect any help from generalities

original records are held locally and not many are on line

Hugh W

--

a wonderful artist in Denmark
http://www.ingerlisekristoffersen.dk/

Beta blogger
http://snaps4.blogspot.com/ photographs and walks

old blogger GENEALOGE
http://hughw36.blogspot.com/ MAIN BLOG

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