Lets throw in "The Genealogist" as another site which holds all of the GRO BMD indexes in microfilm. Searching the records can be a touch lengthy and possible costly if to open up all of the pages on offer. Let's explain. If you wish to search for someone in a range of years you will be given all of the quarterly indexes for the surname for the period - you need to look at each index in turn till you find your target. Your are conducting the same type of search as you would in a record office, leafing through the microfilms of the registers. Ancestry is a better site for searching the records, but you need to subscribe, and you need to double check some of the transcriptions, many of which are wrong (for example Mernandez for Hernandez) If you cannot find someone using a straightforward surname search, then try wild card searches (Put in the statrt of the name 3 or 4 letters and* or the last 3 or 4 letters and*) Lastly, my preference is FreeBMD Google them - you don't need to use Ancestry to find the site. Sister sites to FreeBMD are FreeCEN and FreeReg The site is free, which I believe we all like. :-) Richard Brown Bromley, Kent U.K. ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 16:27:46 +0000 From: Charani <charani.b@googlemail.com> Subject: Re: [KENT-ENG] bmd sites To: gary hodge <jhdl10848@blueyonder.co.uk> gary hodge wrote: Hi List I am very rusty on searching due to health , in the past,on a bmd search for a marriage could, select one partner , then from the details given find the possibile maiden name of his wife, where and how can i do that now. Charani replied: I think you are referring to www.freebmd.org.uk which is currently up to 1935 so far with a fair percentage done up to 1940. :=>< SNIP -- Charani (UK) OPC for Walton, Greinton and Clutton, SOM Asst OPC for Ashcott and Shapwick, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk