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[stevie]

Hi Fellow Researchers
I have only recently started to research my family history, so I am a newebie at this. Firstly what a great site with a lot of knowledgable people.

But my question is this I have an account on 1837online and my one criticism is that it does not look at christian names, so I put my surname and christian names in and it gives me every single DENT from whatever paramaters you put in, so you have to look at every page until you can find what you are llooking for. Now before my PC crashed ( through viruses and trojans ) I had a web site on there that if you put in Christian name and Surname it would isolate years and quarters for them names rather than giving you the whole year to look through. And if you clicked on the name it would take you to a page and tell you that to view this image would cost about £ 3.50 ?

If someone knows the site I would be very grateful.


Thanks in advance
STEVIE

[arthurk]

Sounds like FreeBMD at http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl , which has transcriptions of the GRO indexes (not yet complete).

You might also want to look at UKBMD http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/ , which has links for each county. Some counties have alternative BMD indexes which are transcriptions of the local registrars' indexes - sometimes more accurate than the GRO ones.

Good luck,
Arthur

[Victoria]

Could it be Family History Online ? Seems to fit your description.

[stevie]

Thanks for that Arthur and Victoria

No these are not the sites I used before. The one I used, once you entered the details the screen would go blank and a timer would run from 5 seconds down to zero and then the info would come up with buy beside the names or ref numbers?

Thanks for your help though

STEVIE

[Terry]

Hi that sounds very like the 1901 census website at
http://www.1901census.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.html

[David Wilkins]

Hi Stevie,

The website sounds like the GRO 1901 census which does what you describe. If you are new to all this welcome and you might consider looking at the following sites which you may already know about.

Genuki: http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/genuki/faq.html (http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk./genuki/faq.html)

Good luck

[stevie]

Thanks Terry
Spot on that's the site I was looking for, I use it with 1837online because I find it narrows the search area down.

Once again thanks

David I did know about one of them sites but had not heard about the others really appreciate that.
I just knew this site would help
Once again thanks to everybody and happy searching.

Stevie