Why not use Familysearch either online or with their microfilm copies. Their soundex search is probably the best around, for a sensible list of alternative spellings and its free and their indexers tend to be more accurate.. Once you have a short list of possibles, then move to the GRO search.. Also many local registrars are online and they hold the original. Cheers Paul -----Original Message----- From: DEVON [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Adrian Bruce Sent: 10 November 2016 21:49 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [DEV] GRO Indexes "choose a birth year (+-2), then add 4 years and another 4 years etc" You can squeeze another year out - when you choose a year and plus / minus 2, that's actually 5y, so you can jump up in 5s. To keep track, I simply start with the multiple of 5 below and work up in 5s - e.g. start 1840+/-2, then 1845+/-2, etc.... That's easy enough to remember for me. Adrian ​ ------------------------------------------ The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/ and the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) List archive for Devon can be found at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=devon ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message