I had missed something there. I never actually related the Ancestry FreeBMD to 1915 to THE FreeBMD website as there is not the facility on Ancestry to enter a spouse name. I had not realised that Ancestry were using FreeBMD information. David -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Charani Sent: 06 August 2012 12:45 To: [email protected] Subject: [!! SPAM] Re: [MDX] birth recprds/certificates of birth HYLAND, DWYER David Railton wrote: > Ancestry does not stop at 1916. Records for births and marriages are > there for up to 2005 and deaths up to 2006. I often find records on > Ancestry that I don't see on FeeBMD. However, FreeBMD is sometimes > better for finding names of spouses on marriage records. No, *Ancestry* doesn't stop but their version of FreeBMD does. Has Ancestry added the Postems to their version of FreeBMD or do they still only appear on FreeBMD's own site? If I can't find an entry on FreeBMD but can on FindMyPast, I'll check to see if the former has possibly missed it. If they have, I'll report it so it can be included. They have many images as well which are sometimes worth checking - if only because they are free :)) -- Charani (UK) OPC for Walton, Ashcott, Shapwick, Greinton and Clutton, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk ************************************** Send your List messages using **PLAIN TEXT** and always **TRIM AWAY** superfluous old messages in replies. **MEANINGFUL Subject Lines - who, what, where, when, with SURNAMES in CAPITAL letters** List Admin can be contacted at: [email protected] ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

And no doubt paying for the privilege in some way - given that Ancestry is one of the sponsors of both FreeBMD and Rootsweb. At one time the servers on FreeBMD were sooooo slooooow that one could often not get any results, it would time out. Now that problem rarely happens so possibly Ancestry (and others') sponsorship have bought/provided new/better servers. The search facility on the Ancestry FreeBMD version is limited in that one cannot just use a spouse first name with the other spouse full name. But they have a wider use of wildcard options on Ancestry than appears to be available on FreeBMD. Personally I make use of both (and all others too) depending on which site is open on my computer! JK On 6 August 2012 13:57, David Railton <[email protected]> wrote: > I had missed something there. I never actually related the Ancestry FreeBMD > to 1915 to THE FreeBMD website as there is not the facility on Ancestry to > enter a spouse name. I had not realised that Ancestry were using FreeBMD > information. > > David > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Charani > Sent: 06 August 2012 12:45 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [!! SPAM] Re: [MDX] birth recprds/certificates of birth HYLAND, > DWYER > > David Railton wrote: >> Ancestry does not stop at 1916. Records for births and marriages are >> there for up to 2005 and deaths up to 2006. I often find records on >> Ancestry that I don't see on FeeBMD. However, FreeBMD is sometimes >> better for finding names of spouses on marriage records. > > No, *Ancestry* doesn't stop but their version of FreeBMD does. Has Ancestry > added the Postems to their version of FreeBMD or do they still only appear > on FreeBMD's own site? > > If I can't find an entry on FreeBMD but can on FindMyPast, I'll check to see > if the former has possibly missed it. If they have, I'll report it so it can > be included. They have many images as well which are sometimes worth > checking - if only because they are free :)) > > -- > Charani (UK) > OPC for Walton, Ashcott, Shapwick, > Greinton and Clutton, SOM > http://wsom-opc.org.uk > > ************************************** > Send your List messages using **PLAIN TEXT** and always **TRIM AWAY** > superfluous old messages in replies. > > **MEANINGFUL Subject Lines - who, what, where, when, with SURNAMES in > CAPITAL letters** > > List Admin can be contacted at: [email protected] > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ************************************** > Send your List messages using **PLAIN TEXT** and always **TRIM AWAY** superfluous old messages in replies. > > **MEANINGFUL Subject Lines - who, what, where, when, with SURNAMES in CAPITAL letters** > > List Admin can be contacted at: [email protected] > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message