In message <4C554264.4000803@bigpond.com>, Anne Chambers <anne.chambers@bigpond.com> writes >Mother's surname only came in after 1912 - no matter where you search ;) >And FreeBMD, which is catching up fast, will always be cheaper than >either Ancestry or FMP. > >Anne That's true for the national indexes, but the local ones at http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/ (which don't include MDX yet, but we can hope) do include mother's maiden name for some regions - about 50% based on a quick sample search that I just made for PYE births in 1875. -- Arthur