Hi Merv. 11a covered the whole of South Wales. Pembroke limits it to the Pembroke registration district. which probably contained dozens of parishes. If you go to the GRO website you will find that you can order the certificate online or by phone, and as you have the full reference it will only cost you 8 UKpounds, which can be by credit card. Writing to Pembroke superintendent registrar will perhaps get you the cert. for 6.50 UK pounds, but may get you nothing if they can't find which church it was in. Once you get the certificate then a lot more information will rapidly open up to you. The FreeBMD site has quite a helpful link which pops up after a search has been successful, along the lines of ' What do I do now?' with web addresses, postal addresses and phone numbers. Jeff Glamorgan FHS 1287 Transcriber for FreeBMD ----- Original Message ----- From: Merv Goss <mgoss@kiwi.net.nz> To: <WLS-SWANSEA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2002 9:33 PM Subject: Re: [Swansea] Free BMD #11a; What area? > Hi Anne, Thanks for your reply. I thought the number would indicate which > registration district within a main registration area. I will have to try > another idea. Thanks for the help. Merv. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Anne" <docwras@yahoo.co.uk> > To: <WLS-SWANSEA-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 12:02 AM > Subject: Re: [Swansea] Free BMD #11a; What area? > > > > Saturday, July 20, 2002, 5:23:26 AM, Merv wrote: > > > > MG> Could sks advise what parish or church would 11a indicate? TIA Merv > > > > > > Merv, > > > > The 11a is a civil registration area code as opposed to a parish or > > church records area, so it would be anywhere within the Swansea > > registration district. See http://freebmd.rootsweb.com for searches of > > FreeBMD on-line. > > > > > > -- > > Cheers, > > Anne mailto:docwras@yahoo.co.uk > > > > http://resource.at/docwra Docwra Family Research Project > > > > > > > > ==== WLS-SWANSEA Mailing List ==== > > Swansea History Site http://www.swanseahistoryweb.org.uk/ > > Genuki Swansea Site http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/GLA/Swansea/ > > Glamorgan Family History Society http://website.lineone.net/~glamfhsoc/ > > City/County of Swansea http://www.swansea.gov.uk/default.htm >