England & Wales, BMD Index (Beta)

Ancestry.co.uk - England and Wales BMD Indexes: 1837-1983 (Beta)

I think it is quicker and easier to just browse this collection,

births http://content.ancestry.co.uk/Browse/list.aspx?dbid=8964

marriages http://content.ancestry.co.uk/Browse/list.aspx?dbid=8965

deaths http://content.ancestry.co.uk/Browse/list.aspx?dbid=8966

from my email:-

Hello Hugh.

Thanks very much for the information you put out on soc.genealogy.britain regarding searching the 'births/marriages/deaths' on Ancestry last Friday.

I only picked it up last night and tried it out, and yes it is very much quickerand easier to browse.

Still didn't find what I was after, but that's another story.

Thanks again.

Regards

Dave Field

Norfolk UK

Please be helpful, with any freebie beta test it is up to us to report errors

I use the missing image dialogue for this purpose
personally I surf those images
just as if manually searching fiche

  think it is quicker and easier to just browse this collection,


births
http://content.ancestry.co.uk/Browse/list.aspx?dbid=8964

marriages
http://content.ancestry.co.uk/Browse/list.aspx?dbid=8965

deaths
http://content.ancestry.co.uk/Browse/list.aspx?dbid=8966

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once you get in

eg
http://content.ancestry.co.uk/Browse/list.aspx?dbid=8965&path=1906

just change the year by typing a new one in between 1837 and 1983

http://content.ancestry.co.uk/Browse/list.aspx?dbid=8965&path=1837

to

http://content.ancestry.co.uk/Browse/list.aspx?dbid=8965&path=1983

here are the 1837 sep Benson mrriages

http://content.ancestry.co.uk/Browse/view.aspx?dbid=8965&path=1837.Jul-Aug-Sep.B.14

modify the url by typing

1837. <<>

.Jul-Aug-Sep. other quarters Apr-May-Jun or Jan-Feb-Mar or Oct-Nov-Dec .B. <>

.14 <<>

so I would try around page 42 if 100 then straddle eg plus 10 back 5 until you find the right image

you will find "your" surname will always be statistically in about the same percentage position