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. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .............. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 ....................................................