Once the issue of Districts is cleared up, it'll be good. The Ancestry search engine is soooo much faster that FreeBMD's, and it doesn't seem limited by "complexity". For instance I could search across all Districts and all Years for forenames containing "Hattam", whereas on FreeBMD I have to narrow it down to registration districts (and there are many of these). It also automatically does substring searches, and not exact matches. It's not worried by periods "." either ... It's also interesting to type in what look to be typo's and see what comes back. Try "Jmaes" or "Jamse" for instance. One other consideration though is that the number of records they quote appears to be the total number of entries, with no double keying consideration. This could be good or bad depending on your viewpoint, but at least it works fast. Mark Hattam

On Sun, 21 Oct 2001 11:32:40 +0100, you wrote: >One other consideration though is that the number of records they >quote appears to be the total number of entries, with no double >keying consideration. And without the last months records (they are a month behind us!) -- Dave Mayall