Hi Marge - if you send for the birth certificate of one of the children it should give the mother's maiden name and other information. This would help to locate Fanny in earlier censuses etc and also her birth registration. Marriage certificates should give father's names and actual date of marriage plus some information. FreeBMD have an explanation of what is on the various certificates which you might find useful. http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/Certificates.html Searching for 'Fanny' born Odiham c1848 in the earlier censuses brings up a number of names - I'm not sure what 'search criteria' you are referring to? Best wishes, Patsy - New Zealand > Hi list > I am new to the England genealogy list.? > I found a few births, deaths and marriages that might be related on > Ancestry.com's England & Wales, Free BMD Indexes from 1837-1983.? My > question is, if I order the certificates, will they have any more > information than what is listed on Ancestry.com?? For example, the births > do not give the actual date, just the year and the quarter the birth was > recorded in.? Will the actual record give me the actual day, and month? > And will it give me the names of the parents?? I am talking about births > in the 1835-50 time frame.? And would the marriage records, in the time > frame of 1867-1880 give me the parents names?? > > And another question, I woman is listed in the 1871 census as being born > in Odiham, Hampshire, England, yet when I put that info in the search > criteria, no names will come up for Odiham.? Is there another name of the > town that might have the births for the town of Odiahm? > > By the way, the names I am researching are William Milward, born ca. 1835 > in Henley, Oxfordshire (parents most likely are Henry and Ann Milward from > the same town) and Fanny (listed on one census in the US as Phyllis), born > ca. 1848 in Odiham, Hampshire, Parents unknown.? William and?Fanny had 4 > children, 3 who lived to adulthood.? They are Edith A, Maurice W. (who > were both born in Basingstoke, Hampshire) and their youngest son Frank, > who was born in Michigan, United States.? I believe William and Fanny > immigrated to the US in 1873.? > > Thank you so much for any help you can give me, > Marge