Hi, Adding to what Marie has to say about good Marriage Certs that include the Maiden Name of the Mother of both the Groom and Bride, you can add in New Zealand and Scotland. As to what the situation is concerning the States of Australia I have no idea, hopefully they are similar to either the New Zealand Certs or the Scottish Certs. I agree the Marriage certs for England and Ireland leave a lot to be desired concerning the Maiden Name of the Mother of both the Groom and Bride. Regards, David J Grimshaw (or is it Grimason?) Genealogical Researcher of the "Grimason" surname and variations of the "Grimason" surname World Wide. A One Name study registered with the Guild of One Name Studies (GOONS): 6138 formerly 2962 The "Sherlock Holmes" of this family according to some. On 28/04/2017 8:43 AM, Marie Byatt wrote: > I believe marriage finder relies on a person supplying the information either because they have the certificate or by other means - perhaps FMP has a means of crosschecking on parish records. > > Actually, I don't rely much on the marriage index at all - I've just had too many mistakes. I downloaded a spreadsheet of the possible marriages and then went to Family Search and Ancestry and did a search on marriages for my study name in the right time period. > BOth sites return church records as well as the index records. So I harvested all the church records and ticked off the appropriate lines in the spreadsheet. This left me with about 10% unknown. Next step was to use the censuses to find the new families and see what the spouses name was. At this point, Out of 3900 marriage I'm still missing about 50 spouses. But I'm in the middle of doing a recheck so it will probably diminish some more. Then I either get a film from Family Search or I call in favors. Thanks to Ancestry, Family Search and various parish register films, I have about 2000 digital images of marriages - trying for the rest. > It's funny really as England is the only place that makes marriages so difficult - in every other country if the marriage is registered and I can find the registration - I usually get the spouse name as well. Canadian records are great as are French - right back into the 1700sboth sets of parents and sometimes grandparents - love those. > > > Marie (GOONS 5318) Bringing the world together one surname at a time. 'A Pepler Name' http://pepler.tribalpages.com 'Hedgerow - the Ancestors' http://cranberry.tribalpages.com Pepler DNA Study http://www.familytreedna.com/public/pepler-ow/ 'Scroops, Scropes and Scroopes' http://dentonlk.tribalpages.com > 'Peplers and Peplows' pepler.one-name.net > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Robert Fowler <rlkfowlerons@gmail.com> > To: Goons Forum <goons@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2017 12:54 PM > Subject: [G] FMP Errors > > > > One more for the road, Alton Sep 1891 2c 319 > > > FMP "marriage finder" definitively advises Ben L F m Mary Ann White > > > FreeBMD & Ancestry have standard 4 man options. > > > > I still do not understand what Marriage Finder does, apart from > > jerking my chain! > > > > Is FMP strewn with such errors - I have only looked a A... RDs so far. > > > > Is there a shortcut to marriage sets that FMP does have, but the other > > don't ?? > > > Robert > > _____________________________________________ > > > Information and admin page: > > http://one-name.org/guild-information-administration/ > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message