Thank you Archer....... I think I shall digest this information Ian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Archer Barrie" <Barrie.Archer@uk.fujitsu.com> To: <FreeBMD-Admins-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 10:55 AM Subject: RE: Marriages Samford Suffolk > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Ian & Gillian Kyle [mailto:iankyle@bmts.com] > > Sent: 09 December 2005 00:35 > > To: FreeBMD-Admins-L@rootsweb.com > > Subject: Marriages Samford Suffolk > > > > I have run the above "save search 1837 to 1910" for the > > surname Weeding > > Returned 2 new entries i.e. > > > > Weeding Alice Mary Samford 4a page 1011 Marriage June 1884 > > click on page # 1011 and the entry appears with names from > > Bosmere 4a.... a Puzzle. > > > > The 2nd entry strangely perhaps is for the same name > > Weeding Alice Mary Samford 4a page 1369 marriage Sep 1896 > > click on page 1369 and the entry appears with names from > > Hartismere.....again a puzzle. > > The registers are grouped according to the volume and each volume contains a > number of districts. It is possible, therefore, that entries from different > districts (all within the same volume) can appear on the same page although, > of course, pairs of entries should have the same district. > > > note the districts are in italics although "Samford" appears > > to be a legitimate spelling. > > If you click on "Samford" it says: "The page number is not within the range > expected for the district. Note that there a number of possible reasons for > this, including an error in the district, the page, the volume, the date or > the type of entry." In the first case the reason is a wrong page and in the > second the reason is a wrong date. > > > I then clicked the "spectacles" for the 2nd entry and > > returned page 334 for Sep 1896 instead of 1369 > > I could not get a return for the "spectacles" in the first entry. > > There are (confusingly) two types of "page", one is the page in the original > register (page 1369 in volume 4a) and the other is the page of the index > (334), which is what the scan is of. > > In the Sept 1986 entry you will not find the entry on page 334 because the > transcription accidently put the entry in September rather than June. This > has already been corrected which is why there is now a entry for the same > name in the results for June 1896. The incorrect entry (Sep 1986) has now > been deleted and this will be reflected in the results at the next update. > > There does not now appear to be a problem with viewing the scan of the first > entry. However, as Allan has observed the page number should probably be > 1041. If you do a search for Marriages, June 1884, volume=4a, page=1041 you > will get three entries which are probably the ones that go with the Weeding > entry. > > > ==== FreeBMD-Admins Mailing List ==== > Want to help FreeBMD? > Go to http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/Signup.html to find out how. > > ============================== > View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find > marriage announcements and more. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx > >