OK, www.FreeBMD.org.uk is specifically set up for the formal BMD registrations that started in the 3rd quarter of 1837. And for a number of years a lot of people didn't bother to register. www.FreeREG.org.uk is specifically set up for parish registers. HOWEVER, this is all done by volunteers and depends on whether they can get access to the registers. A couple of years ago I was transcribing London and the registers were unavailable. The executive committee tried to get them and were not having a lot of success. I'm not sure of the status. www.freeCEN.org.uk is for the UK Census. All three sites are run entirely by volunteers. Rosemary On 8/1/2015 2:21 AM, Bret Busby via wrote: > On Fri, 31 Jul 2015, Nivard Ovington via wrote: > >> Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2015 01:37:57 >> From: Nivard Ovington via <[email protected]> >> Reply-To: Nivard Ovington <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [LONDON] BUSBY name especially with HORTON middle name >> >> Then Bret you are not using it correctly >> >> Go to :- >> >> http://www.freebmd.org.uk/ >> >> Select search left side red button >> >> Select event type or all >> >> Enter surname and or first name >> >> By entering a + in front of the forename it will pick up the middle >> names as well >> >> And search >> >> Also at the foot of that search page is >> http://www.freebmd.org.uk/advanced-facilities.html >> >> >> >> Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) >> >>> All I get at freebmd.org, are endless pointers to external web sites, >>> with no freebmd search engine. >>> > Okay; I got the freebmd.org.uk search engine working, but, there are two > significant limitations. > > The first, is that, in terms of BDM events, it is limited to the GRO > records and apparently does not includeparish registers; the searches > must be for periods commencing no earlier than September 1837. In this > particular case, as shown in the original message that I posted, my > great-great grandfather Michael Horton BUSBY was apparently born in > 1803. Another * Horton Busby, who could be one of his siblings, is shown > as having been born/christened in 1801. Those events, which could lead > to finding any siblings and parents of my ancestor, are excluded from > the reebmd.org.uk search facility. > > The second thing, is that, in terms of the BMD events, the > freebmd.org.uk search facility, only returns records in indices; not the > full event records. Thus, for example, a birth result from the > freebmd.org.uk search facility, does not show the parents for a birth > entry, so that, if an entry was found for the birth of my Michael Horton > Busby, it would not show the names of his parents. In the information > that I had posted previously, the result for a birth of a male BUSBY > with the middle name Horton, fom familysearch.org, showed the father to > be Joseph Horton BUSBY. > > So, the freebmd.org.uk search facility, has its limitations, which > inhibit my researching this particular component - possible > relationships between BUSBY people with the middle name Horton. >