If I cannot find a birth/death/marriage on NZ’s BMDs, I use ancestry, because of the wild card/soundex searching. However, I think the years covered by ancestry are not as extensive… On 22/01/2017, at 8:05 PM, [email protected] wrote: Message: 1 Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2017 17:57:54 +1300 From: Graham Hoult <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Cc: John Wilson <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: [nz] NZ Births Index -missing names Message-ID: <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 John Wilson <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> messaged > Subject: Re: [nz] NZ Births Index -missing names > > Hi All: I have asked BDM to investigate a 1976 death which is in the RG 1976 > fiche (old folio number included) but not online (unless the surname is > wrong). I also advised a date of death from the Owaka Cemetery microfiche. > > Someone advised a while ago that some NZ BDMs are on FindMyPast (not > Ancestry?) where they can be searched with a wildcard. > > Yours, John Wilson.