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I think you may have missed the point there, Wendy. Pam is not talking about the inherent accuracy or inaccuracy of the GRO index itself but about Ancestry fouling up the job of implementing...

I'm not surprised! It costs the same to search whether something is found or not.

In most censuses, Ancestry haven't transcribed the address. This means you can't search directly for an address.

Use these street indexes instead -
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Yes I'm sorry I didn't read your message closely enough. I should have realised that for those dates there would not be a certificate.

But if he was married, you surely know his father's name because it's on the marriage certificate.

There are standard reference works available in good libraries which will help. Reaney & Wilson which I happen to have handy says there are examples of the Follenfant surname in England back to...

On Ancestry the births database name is "Ireland, Civil Registration Births Index, 1864-1958". But I wouldn't expect the results to be any different because the Ancestry source data is the...

Have you tried Google Images?

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Bedfordshire parish registers have been pretty well transcribed and the IGI has copied many of these transcriptions. If you can't find anything on the IGI, I'd consider first of all spending a bit of...

The 1874 Act (...to amend the Law relating to the Registration of Births and Deaths in England...) would not yet have been in force. This Act closed some loopholes which certainly existed before...

Perhaps I don't get it either. I originally suggested that signing a post with a forename would be better than nothing. You obviously don't have a problem with that.

It's always worth checking the WorldGenWeb.

I think birthday cards should be sent in plain brown envelopes to make sure the postman doesn't find out that it's your birthday.

Lloyd George Domesday? Land Tax Valuation? (For examples, see Ancestry "London, England, Land Tax Records, 1692-1932")

Sounds like a Rate Book. A resource that's often overlooked by genealogists.

Other videos that might be of interest (not necessarily 1920s) -

London Metropolitan Archives on YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/user/LdnMetArchives/videos

London Screen Archives -...

"Smith formerly Jones" is just the way she described herself to the registrar. Whether or not there's a father's name shown, you would still have to search elsewhere for proof of an actual marriage....

Another improvement to the site would be to encourage all users to sign their messages with a proper name - even if it's only a forename.

What "What's New" seems to be doing for me is to list threads which have been updated since my last forum activity. I'm happy with that.

Isn't that functionality provided by the "What's New" button?

Or the owner may not be resident because the property is rented out. Frankly, I wouldn't expect a tenant to respond to such a letter.

1. I would also appreciate a "mobile" version of the site. I believe there is a mobile version of vbulletin. But I suppose it costs.

2. The best "no cost" change to this site would be to...

The example says


This is wrong because "formerly" always refers to the maiden name and "late" to a former married name. The surnames should start at the most recent and work backwards.

The...

Thomas Frederick A'Brook, would you search under A or B?

I missed that question. It should be under "A". The convention always used to be that something like A'Brook would be listed alphabetically...

A'Brook is a valid surname even if it isn't common. There are 44 entries in FreeBMD.