Civil Registration of Births, Marriages and Deaths only began on 1st July 1837, so FreeBMD will have no entries before that. If you have a less common name, and straightforward searches have failed, it is worth searching using wildcards, such as Westbury N* http://www.freebmd.org.uk/search-help.shtml explains. I assume you have either not found, or discounted, the death shown in FreeBMD in March quarter 1863 for WESTBURY,Naome,Newbury,2c,151 Should you wish to join over 10 thousand volunteers who have transcribed entries for FreeBMD, follow the link from Join FreeBMD on the FreeBMD home page http://www.freebmd.org.uk/ Best wishes Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: <jimone2@telepak.net> To: <Berkshire@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 4:11 PM Subject: [BRK] Berkshire Burial Index vs IGI > The parish microfilms, at the Family History Center (SLC), while having > the deaths and burials included, does not list many deaths/burials in the > IGI. In addition to not finding them in the IGI I can not find them in > FreeBMD. Possibly due to spelling or FreeBMD is not fully transcribed. > > Is There a Berkshire list member that has access to the Berkshire Burial > Index? I am trying to locate the burials of the persons listed below. > They are female WARD family members that have married. All were christened > and married in Berkshire. If the spouses show up in the index, please > include them in any answer. > > HES (sic), Ann Spouse John chr. 4 Jan 1736 > marr. 18 Oct 1762 > > PAYNTON, Mary Spouse William chr. 29 May 1780 marr. > 24 Sep 1804 > > GODDARD, Sarah Spouse George chr. 29 Jul 1774 > marr. 8 Sep 1800 > > WESTBURY, Naomi Spouse John chr. 13 Feb 1785 > marr. 5 Oct 1829 > > SWADLING, Elizabeth Spouse Richard chr. 6 Aug 1769 > marr. 1 Jun 1787 > (AKA) Mary Ann > > Thank you for reading my letter. > > Jim WARD > MS USA > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BERKSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >