Ancestry trawl or findmypast?

[Jools in Scarborough]

I'm looking for some children born 1956 onwards. I have surname and mother's maiden name. Does anyone know if findmypast (for which I don't have a sub) has surname combined with mmn searches this far forward or am I down to trawling ancestry (for which I do have a sub)?

Can't put names on here as they are living.
Thanks, Jools

[Dead Rellies]

i always use ancestry, so i cant give an opinion of find my past sorry.

[KiteRunner]

Jools, no site has a full index for that period; it will be much the same whichever site you go on - no choice but to trawl through.

[Christine in Herts]

Unless it's one of the places where the local register office has a searchable online database.

There's a list on the Local page of UKBMD - Births, Marriages, Deaths Indexes & Census transcriptions for the UK, On-Line (http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/) with the names sorted alphabetically, but in two sets: firstly the ones which share a particular software package, and then the ones that don't.

Christine

[Jools in Scarborough]

Christine - Unfortunately they're not in one of those areas :(

Trawl time I'm afraid.

Thanks everyone, Jools

[Chrissie Smiff]

If you are like me Jools and get tired of the waiting for Ancestry pages to come up you may think it's worth £6.95 for 60 searched on find my past. It's so much easier, quicker and clearer and you could do about 13/14 years with that if it is a fairly unusual name and you are lucky and they don't go onto two pages very often.

If you would like to PM me with the name and mmn I would be happy to do a few years for you.

[Jools in Scarborough]

Thank you Chrissie - I'm about to pm you. Surname is fairly common, but mmn is not. Jools

[Chrissie Smiff]

I have just checked Jools and there are 3 or 4 pages for every quarter of that surname, so it could be a long haul!!! I will check 1957 and 1958 for you.

[Chrissie Smiff]

Crikey, I don't believe it, the first quarter I checked and found one:)
As you haven't mentioned the surname or mmn on here it should be ok to give the details. Surname and mmn as you stated, the name is Barry Oct-Dec 1958 Darlington 1a 288

[Chrissie Smiff]

I shall wait until you read my latest PM before I look for any more children. The person I mentioned may be able to give you the rest of the details without searching:)

[Jools in Scarborough]

Thanks Chrissie - pm on way. Jools