Have just been re-reading the GRO info leaflets and figured out one problem that was keeping me from getting results! While the IGI will pull up entries for e.g."Anne" when one enters "Ann" on the search form, the GRO form will not without using wildcards. Another useful bit of info I found is that the year 1855 entries for Births, Deaths and Marriages can have a lot of information e.g. names and ages of surviving deceased person's children on the person's Death Certificate; or names, ages and places of birth of the mother's previous children on an 1885 birth certificate etc.I'm now planning to try to find siblings etc if my direct ancestors didn't have anything happening that year, to see what family history I can glean from these extracts. Lilian Lilian Campbell