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Birth Marriage & Death Certificates

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Helen

Helen Report 5 Aug 2008 19:20

Thank you both for your help, have been trawling through lots of sites but at present not having much luck, but I am keeping my fingers crossed

LindainHerriotCountry

LindainHerriotCountry Report 3 Aug 2008 22:35

If you can't find them on a census, it is usually because they have been mistranscribed.
try putting all the information on the Tips board, there are lots of experienced researchers who are only too willing to help.
You can find some older marriages on the family search website. To see which areas are covered use the Hugh Wallis batch numbers.

I will most a help guide below on how to do this.
If you have a woman and want to know who she married, find the marriage reference on the freebmd website. View the possible husbands, then go to the following census and put her details in with each of the possible husbands surnames.
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http://www.familysearch.org/Eng

On this page, you will find the IGI, this lets you search for births marriages and deaths transcribed from the original parish records. You need to be careful though because some of the records on this site have been submitted by ordinary people and can be wrong.

To search for say a christening fill in the information on this search page on the IGI tab. It will come up with some suggestions. If you find one, you can also look for siblings. Open up the info on that child and look to the bottom left, where it will say batch number. Click on this number and a second search page opens. Fill in just the fathers name and search. It will show other possible siblings born in the same church.

Sometimes you get no results from the IGI. This may be because that church may not have been transcribed for the years you want.. To find out if it has been, use the Hugh Wallis Batch numbers.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers.htm#Menu
Choose the country you want and then the county. Then the place, you will see which years have been transcribed, click on one and a search box opens, put the surname in, or leave it blank to see all the events in that church.

As you get further back, you will need to look at the original parish records, very few are available on line, you usually have to visit the county records office. To find out where your records are use.

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/

Choose the country you need, then the county. The county pages are different, depending on who compiled them, but most have lots of useful links on them.


Hope this helps

Linda

Helen

Helen Report 3 Aug 2008 21:19

Is there any way of looking online at the above certificates without having to pay lots of money, have found the indexes but I need to find maiden names of wifes which as a newbe seem to be having trouble as some of my family seemed to have escaped all of the census. Look forward to any help. Thanks.