Bill, Just to add to what others have said, check larger libraries or FHS centres in your area. Many offer free access to Ancestry or FindMyPast. That will provide 1841-1911 census records and BMD records 1937-2006. As has been said, it depends if you are looking backwards for ancestors or looking forward to current day descendants. If looking for living descendants just be aware of privacy issues. Peter

Hi Peter Just to say I had a mail off list from Bill and have given him some food for thought to pass on to his acquaintance I suspect he may be back once its digested :-) Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > Bill, > > Just to add to what others have said, check larger libraries or FHS > centres in your area. Many offer free access to Ancestry or FindMyPast. That > will provide 1841-1911 census records and BMD records 1937-2006. > > As has been said, it depends if you are looking backwards for ancestors > or looking forward to current day descendants. > > If looking for living descendants just be aware of privacy issues. > > Peter

From: "Peter R Booth" <[email protected]> > If looking for living descendants just be aware of privacy issues.> Paranoid nonsense! There aren't any privacy issues except those introduced by those who are obsessed with secrecy and censorship, which has no place in the modern world and most certainly does not belong in family history If family history is not about the living as well as the dead, then what on earth is it about? How are people supposed to find living relatives and connect with them, also share their family history and mutual sources, if they are not allowed to connect with one another? Utter, utter nonsense !!!!! -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE