Hi.. Some while ago, as a result of a link from Sue Burton's postings to this and the admins list I visited a site that allowed one to trawl through the Latter Day Saints genealogical website (www.familysearch.org) searching on the middle name. Is it, or would it be, possible to enable that sort of search on FreeBMD? We have a very distinctive middle name in one branch of my family, used in either second or third place, but although I have tried searching for ' * McClellan + surname ' I do not get any results returned. I am sure there are others like me who would wish to search on middle names, perhaps because the ancestor was only ever called by their middle name and everyone has forgotten the first, except perhaps the initial., or even that detail has been lost in the mists of time but a reasonable approximation of DoB and district is known. It would help pin down some elusive relatives. Any chance, please Loraine

Hi Lorraine, It is already possible to do that very search, and I have found several relatives that way - but don't put a space between the * and the name or it won't work. You can test it out on Clark, first name *Leaver - you'll get 3 results. Regards Sue Smith Family Web Site: http://www.harriesfamily.net/index.html -----Original Message----- From: Loraine [mailto:Lol_barnes@lineone.net] Sent: 19 February 2004 21:50 To: FREEBMD-DISCUSS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Middle Name search Hi.. Some while ago, as a result of a link from Sue Burton's postings to this and the admins list I visited a site that allowed one to trawl through the Latter Day Saints genealogical website (www.familysearch.org) searching on the middle name. Is it, or would it be, possible to enable that sort of search on FreeBMD? We have a very distinctive middle name in one branch of my family, used in either second or third place, but although I have tried searching for ' * McClellan + surname ' I do not get any results returned. I am sure there are others like me who would wish to search on middle names, perhaps because the ancestor was only ever called by their middle name and everyone has forgotten the first, except perhaps the initial., or even that detail has been lost in the mists of time but a reasonable approximation of DoB and district is known. It would help pin down some elusive relatives. Any chance, please Loraine ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237