In a message dated 03/04/2009 09:14:16 GMT Standard Time, [email protected] writes: FreeBmd have all births from 1837-1915 To be a little pedantic, FreeBMD have the births from the GRO Indexes, but I have found that there are quite a few occurrences on the various local Registrars websites which are not in the GRO Indexes, presumably because they got lost, were mistranscribed or whatever. So it is well worth checking both sources. There are also registrations in the GRO which are missing from the local indexes on the Net. You can't win! Adrian