Cross referencing data

[notanotherminer]

Using the surname of Margaret's father I just looked on Family Search for a Margaret Nelson marriage and the one result exactly matches the details of William's entry

Sep qtr 1899 vol 2 page 261

I see that Olliecat has already found her name

[olliecat]

How did you do that, olliecat? Is there a way to search by district and volume/page number?

No quick way that I can find I'm afraid. On family search, I typed in Sligo for the place, year 1899 (ticked exact), selected marriage. I didn't enter any names. I hunted through the results looking for any marriage in the correct quarter with a matching vol/page number. I found Margaret Nelson when I reached page 14 of the results. It didn't take that long since I ignored anything that wasn't in the Sep quarter.

I didn't check the census till after.

I do wish they would add a facility to enter the page/vol number on family search.

[Coromandel]

I hunted through the results looking for any marriage in the correct quarter with a matching vol/page number. I found Margaret Nelson when I reached page 14 of the results.

well done you! you're much more patient than me . . . I lose the will to live after about 4 pages with my so-called broadband.

I do wish they would add a facility to enter the page/vol number on family search.

hear, hear!

[RonOne]

I do wish they would add a facility to enter the page/vol number on family search.

Ideas etc... for improving Family Search can be posted here: http://getsatisfaction.com/familysearch

[chrisnay55]

Thanks again, you lot are so knowledgeable, knew someone would be able to help.

Cheers

CHris