Hi Karen It's a shame more counties aren't like Lancashire. We have the Lancashire BMD. Here the county's Family History Societies are collaborating with the local Registration Services to make the indexes to these records freely searchable via the Internet. Because they are working from the original certificate they tell you the Mothers maiden name. With the marriages they tell you the name of the spouse and the church or whether a registrar attended. And the deaths give you the age. I don't know how complete they are, but there is almost 9 million births, over 4 million marriages and approaching 5 million deaths. We also have Online Parish Clerk here in Lancashire and it really is a help. Currently we have over Seven and a quarter Million records that have been transcribed. You can search for somebody a particular parish, town or the whole county. I don't know how far the OPC goes back, but my earliest ancestor is 1573 Regards Michael On 19-Sep-13 12:51 PM, Karen Mabey wrote: > Hi list > > When looking for a marriage and I find several people with the same vol and > page number, how can I work out who married who please? > > > > Also is it likely that someone from Swansea would marry in Carmarthenshire > please? > > > > Regards > > Karen. >