Dear Esther Ann Have you been to the local Register Office or national. As the originals were copied by local registrars and sent to GRO mistakes were made. It is always worth going back to the original RO- which in this case would be Gloucester RO, I guess. Also, is it possible that either she was registered before being named - in which case look for a female Smith birth, or that Caroline was her second name? I have a Georgina Selina, who was after called Jessie (!) ( fortunately her surname was rare so I picked that up) and my g grandmother who everyone told me was Florence Taylor and cost me a couple of wrong certificates, turned out to be Flora - at least till the first census she appeared on! Best wishes Jill Esther Ann wrote: >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: 270.8.1/1733 - Release Date: 19/10/2008 18:02 > > >