GRO Online Historic Indexes

[James18]

So, if you don't know when someone was born or died you're out of luck?

[Merry]

James, if you are looking for a death in the GRO indexes before 1866 there are no ages at death recorded which can make finding the right cert difficult, also problems when you don't have the mmn for births before 1911 Q3. These new indexes provide this additional info.

[kiterunner]

Originally Posted by James18

So, if you don't know when someone was born or died you're out of luck?

You just have to keep repeating the same search with a different year range.

[Merry]

Depending on the frequency of the names you could do a search on another site (FreeBMD/Ancestry etc) to see the years/quarters there are entries that need further investigation and just search those years/quarters on the new site.

Just found another brother and sister for my grandmother. I knew there were more but couldn't pick them out without the maiden name search.

[Mary from Italy]

Originally Posted by JBee

Yes Mary and I have the certificate.

In that case you can enter the volume and page numbers in the search and omit all the other information except the surname; if the surname isn't too badly mistranscribed you should find him, and the spelling of the surname and mmn may help finding the siblings.

[Mary from Italy]

Originally Posted by kiterunner

You just have to keep repeating the same search with a different year range.

Unfortunately you have to specify the gender, so you have to run the same search twice, once for male and once for female.

It is doable, though, if you enter dates 5 years apart and search for that date +/-2.

Originally Posted by James18

So, if you don't know when someone was born or died you're out of luck?

Originally Posted by kiterunner

You just have to keep repeating the same search with a different year range.

James

What Kate said it is a bit tedious also you have to do it twice for female and male (but what Mary in Italy said) - but that is what I did - also be careful with the maiden name selection on births I would go with similar sounding first.

My Wingfield was the worst - I eventually found all and more and the variations on maiden name was Winfield, Winkfield, Winefield - I had to use phonetic eventually.

[Merry]

You don't have to enter the maiden name though, if you don't want to. Just look at the results and choose the ones you can see that fit!

Originally Posted by Merry

You don't have to enter the maiden name though, if you don't want to. Just look at the results and choose the ones you can see that fit!

That's true I did that as well LOL

You have to ensure you have a system though because I was midway through searches and forgot whether I had done Male before or Female before and had to do them again just in case.

The problem I had also was a lot of mine in London were born over 4 or more reg districts as well.

Especially when I was being constantly interrupted by someone.