To further clarify: Spouse matching and indexing of Jewish marriages already exists on many local BMD sites. The ones in the UKBMD "chain" are in the process of adding mother's maiden names to all births (from 1837 onwards). See www.ukbmd.org.uk Sherry (Salford, LAN) > > The DoVE project, which will enable spouse-matching for all marriages > registered at the GRO after 1837, may anyway be up and running before > TH have finished. > > http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/aboutus/lookingahead/Digitisation_of_Vital_Events.asp