Genealogy Chat

Trying to find a birth between about 1948-1955. Very ordinary surname, though mother has a very very unusual foreign name. So is there anyway of making this a quicker search rather than trawling through dozens and dozens of pages of the ordinary name please?

Heather please let me look for you I have lots of credits on 1837 as you know, and I would love to. I am going to the gym for an hour, and can do it when I get back just give me the details

Many thanks Val, but I wouldnt want to use your credits. Its a very vague period of about 6 years x 4 quarters and the surname very common. Will carry on trawling unless someone has a better idea.

Can't you do that on the current Ancestry free access to BMD? The mother's name will be against the birth entry.

There is no way of narrowing it down, but at least it will jump off the page when you see the maiden name :-) Do you have a christian name for the birth, or are you having to look through umpteen pages each quarter as well? Sam

Thats what we are doing Brian, I just wondered if there was any way someone brilliant could suggest to cut down the amount of trawling with a common surname but very unusual maiden name for mother. Guess not.

What about trying family relatives?? Some of the years are fully indexed.

its free on Ancestry to look at BMD index http://www(.)ancestry(.)co(.)uk/search/rectype/vital/freebmd/bmd.aspx remove brackets If you have any 1/4's missing could be mistranscribed go to 1/4 that is there click on it then click on year above then 1/4 missing then letter then just go through image pages until you get to right one Jeanette

Thanks Sam, thought as much, but with my increasing senior moments, wondered if there was anyway the maiden name could be used as a source. Onwards and upwards then .............:) Thanks Jeanette, perhaps I havent been clear, I and another person are trawling on there at present, but I just wondered if there was a quicker method - the old sciatica playing up when I have to sit here too long!

Have you found it yet, or do you want some other person (moi!!??) to have a look at a few years for you? I have looked 26½ years for someone just now, so a few more won't hurt! Merry

No, unfortunately there is no quicker way until Family Rellies or some other website does a full index for those years. Perhaps it would be quicker searching on a microfiche at the records office, because then you don't have to wait for the pages to load? But then if you don't live very near a records office, there is the travelling time to consider... Kate.

My 'pooter must be quick......each page takes 5 or 6 seconds to load, so it doesn't take more than a few mins to do ten years or so....... Come on Heather...... your not still looking are you?!! Merry