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I would like to know if the best way of finding a marriage or death, with no details except for the name, is to search through each quarter.

The people in question were born 1905 - 1913 I know where they were born and have done a search on freebmd and can't find any marriages or deaths.

I have also looked online for deaths between 1984 and 2006 can't see them.

I don't know if they moved from the area they were born in and I know the surname is spelt incorrectly when transcribed sometimes.

So does anyone know anyway to search except by going through each quarter.

Thanks.

Sal

Do they have children and if so do you know when the first child was born? If so you could start searching the quarters about 2 years before the birth, would rule out searching too far back. Not fool proof as they could ahve lost a child but it is somewhere to start. Don't think there is any other way but searching quarters.

Sally Freebmd has it's limitations due to be transcribed by volunteers. The marriage/death you're looking for probably won't have been transcribed yet.

Have you tried looking on Ancestry?

Haven't got a clue if they had children.

I am just starting to fill out my tree to more distant relatives and these are my grandads cousins children and as there was such a big age gap between the cousins they didn't really know each other.

Looks like I will have to try with just the first name or do a quarter by quarter search.

Can I search for free on ancestry because I don't have a subscription at the moment. Haven't done any real research for a while.

Thanks anyway.

Sal

Sally if you want to give me details i will search on Ancestry for you ,

Rambling Rose I have pm'd you with the details.

Thank you very much.

Sal