General Chat

I been looking for different surnames of possible children of ancestors & i think if they added in the search where you can put in Mother's Maiden Name this i feel would results in a lot better connections also stop a lot of wasted time.
This is especially so when you have very common surnames such as Smith, Barnes, Browns Jones & you have a marriage to one of these common names but don't know if there was any children what do others think may be the management would conside adding this field in to searches

Mother´s maiden names weren,t included in the records until 1911.
The only place you might be lucky enough to find them is on Familysearch.
Marion

I think Janice means the "they" who are the powers that be here at GR. ;)

The search function here really is pretty useless for any common name. You don't want to be too specific about birthplace because of the various spellings, and where tree owners have got their info from -- or even about birthdate -- since info in trees commonly comes not from birth certificates, but from rather censuses, family stories, guessing, etc.

Anything that helped narrow it down would help, and mother's birth surname would be a terrific idea! Most tree owners have people's parents in their trees -- until they get back to their "brick wall" generation -- so if the search function is actually searching trees, that would seem be possible. (To my untrained mind -- I can use a search engine for all it's worth, but I have no idea how this one here works.) I suspect it's just searching a list of names in each tree, though, and that wouldn't allow for connecting one name in a tree to another.

The Dove project that has since been ditched for lack of money ,was going to go back on all the births from 1837 and add the mmn onto the GRO record, It was a goverment dept project for the GRO that was started then came to a halt.
Would have been great for those births that came between census and never appeared again,
Must say the 1911 census have thrown up the info that has helped on how many children born etc

This notice was issued in 2007 but since ditched altogether
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ONS announced in January its intention to provide facilities to search indexes of births, marriages and deaths on the internet from early 2008. Due to a longer-than-expected development period for the index, and some delays in the digitisation project which will deliver the index data in searchable electronic form, it will not now be possible to deliver the new index in the short term.
from the GRO
Our plans remain for the digitisation programme for Historic events to include data capture of Mother's Maiden Name on Births from 1837, Age at death on Deaths from 1837 and both parties to Marriage on Marriages from 1837. The search options and presentation of the indexes will form part of the index development process which is yet to be finalised.

I am afraid I cannot be more specific than that at this stage but as things become clearer we will be providing customers and key stakeholders with updates via our web site and other electronic