In a message dated 11/11/2009 13:26:54 GMT Standard Time, WHRutherford@aol.com writes: The marriage comes up on an Ancestry search, with the correct date, but there is no scan available (unlike the London Area transcripts, where we get the actual register). Hazel: Not really relevant only to your research, but a general point - what Ancestry calls a "scan" is actually a scan only of the handwritten GRO index. It therefore contains no "extra" information and is certainly not the "actual register", as you put it. The information written down by the registrar when an event is registered is that which appears on the certificate- and they have not (yet) begun giving them away for nothing! Geoff Nicholson