I recently ordered a certificate from GRO without success but the original office found it easily. Might be an idea to request certificate from Gloucester. Paula > Message Received: Oct 20 2008, 09:36 PM > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Cc: > Subject: GLOUCESTER Digest, Vol 3, Issue 491 > > I found > > Smith Caroline Dorothy Jun quarter 1908 Gloucester 6a 338 on FreeBMD ... you > could order it online and see if it matches up? > > Regards > > Dave > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Esther Ann" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 1:41 PM > Subject: [GLS] Smith Search > > > > Hi Listers, > > > > I have just received email for the third time that the > > GRO can not find details on my Grandmother, > > Caroline Smith! > > Although I was disappointed on this second search for > > May 17,1905 which included also the 2nd quarter > > of 1904 and 1906 that ended up empty handed, I am > > now more disappointed then ever because the third > > attempt the GRO only searched for the year given 1908 > > and as they indicated there were too many to look > > through with that name for 1907/1909. > > So I ask what is a person to do? I know my > > grandmother existed and I know looking for anyone > > with the name Smith is a task, but theres got to be > > someway for me to figure this out. She had a passport > > because she traveled to Australia twice and here to the U.S. > > to visit our family numerous times. She was a pensioner?????? > > Is there some kind of data bank somewhere in the UK > > where information can be inserted and it cross references through > > all of the Counties in the UK in order to narrow down the search. > > I mean this is crazy. > > Esther Fetsko > > > > > > Caroline Smith, Born:May 17,1905, 121 Westgate St. Gloucester, Died: > > 2000, Swindon, Wiltshire. > > Father: Edgar G. Smith, Born,abt: 1860, Gloucester, Died,abt: 1948, > > Stroud, Gls > > Mother: Elizabeth Swan, Unknwn > > Brother: Frederick Smith, Born: November 4, 1912, #4Compass, Priory Rd. > > Gls. > > Spouse: Reginald Platt, Born: October,1903, Died: Jan,1959 > > > > > > > > > > _____________________________________________ > > > > Have you considered adding "postems" to "your" events on > > www.freebmd.org.uk , giving your contact details? Other researchers will > > then be able to make contact. Click on the info button to add your postem. > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.173 / Virus Database: 270.8.1/1734 - Release Date: 20/10/2008 > 07:25 > > > >