On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 21:08:23 -0400 Daryl <dlphistory@gmail.com> wrote: Hello Daryl, > According to the charts on FreeBMD the 1843 and 1844 birth indexes are > 100% transcribed and his birth is not found. I have tried searches > using the Nothing unusual in that. I have many ancestors with unregistered births. During the early years of civil registration, it was thought baptism was a suitable alternative (it wasn't). In one family with 8 children in my tree I have 5 baptisms and 4 birth registrations. With some children baptised only, some registered only, some baptised and registered and the rest neither baptised or registered. When I say 8 children, that assumes all the children they had lived through at least one census and are recorded as being at home with their parents. Further, until 1875 the onus was on the registrar to seek out the details. Parents weren't required to volunteer the information until 1875 when a fine for non-registration was also introduced. "A Comedy of Errors" & "A Comedy of Errors, Act 2" both by Michael W. Foster, detail all sorts of woes regarding missing BMD data at the GRO. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)rad never immediately apparent" The stakes were high but the danger low Charade - Skids