Hi Keith This is an easy one to answer. The Indexes for 1840 marriages 1st Qrt are transcribed by a one person Syndicate (this is almost unique and goes back before I came on the scene). The individual concerned is actually transcribing from microfiche in a local LDS and has transcribed up to letter I (not L) at the moment, hence William ROUND has not yet been transcribed. Sarah HILL has been transcribed, in fact there are more than 2 shown. Now for the bad news, there appears to be a fundamental error in all the entries in the files uploaded to FreeBMD which again would appear to make the search facility null and void for any records in these files. The good news, is that it has nothing to do with missing pages. Now I have to break the bad news to this very prolific and industrious volunteer, I'll be sure to mention you name?? Allan Raymond [email protected] http://www.btinternet.com/~allan_raymond/Monarchies_of_Europe.htm FreeBMD - putting birth marriages and deaths on the Internet http://FreeBMD.rootsweb.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Tinkler" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: 29 October 2001 17:39 Subject: probable problem in 1840 marriages 1st Qrt around "HILL" ->missing pages? I recently had occasion to order the marriage certificate. William ROUND and Sarah HILL. 1840 Dudley 18 331 1st Qrt I obtained the details, which I checked for both parties, from fiche of the handwritten entries in the BMD records at my local LDS centre. I also have the marriage details (17 Mar 1840) independently from family documents. I was surprised to hear back from the agent that when he checked in the indexes that there was no sign of Sarah Hill. In fact I know there are two Sarah Hills - the other has a page entry different to the one matching William Round. A month or two ago I realised in transcribing 1845 4th Qrt births (including DRAKE to DUNN) that every other physical page was missing from the posted tif images .. (I realised the problem from an obvious break in the forenames in long list with the same surname - the handwritten pages numbers confirmed the missing page.) I went to my local LDS and found that the fiche records that they had were complete - and obtained the missing pages from that source. So - I guess this is to alert you to the possible problem - although it is not hard to spot - and to ask just how common this is? (I see that 1840 was 80% complete as of October 11th) Keith ============================== Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history learning and how-to articles on the Internet. http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library