is it just me?

[Darksecretz]

I am having huge difficulties trying to get the FreeBMD marriage info to come up in the results range when I have done a search on Ancestry.

this is what I am getting

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=34&gss=angs-g&new=1&rank=1&gsfn=ann**&gsfn_x=NN&gsln=lydall&msbdy_x=1&msbdp=5&MSAV=1&msbdy=1894&msbpn__ftp=Nottinghamshire%2c+England&msbpn=5279&msbpn_PInfo=7-%7c0%7c0%7c3257%7c3251%7c0%7c0%7c0%7c5279%7c0%7c0%7c&cpxt=1&cp=11&catbucket=rstp&uidh=lg3&so=2

can anyone see what I am doing wrong please.

[JudithM]

Only a guess - is it because you have specified Ann's birth year 1894?

[JudithM]

By removing that date I got a much wider range of results - including 1837-1915 marriages

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=34&gss=sfs28_ms_r_f-34&new=1&rank=1&gsfn=ann**&gsfn_x=NN&gsln=lydall&gsln_x=NN&msbdp=5&msbpn__ftp=Nottinghamshire%2C%20England&msbpn=5279&msbpn_PInfo=7-%7C0%7C0%7C3257%7C3251%7C0%7C0%7C0%7C5279%7C0%7C0%7C&cpxt=1&cp=11&MSAV=1&uidh=rg1

[Darksecretz]

yes I see that Judith but I am not getting ANY freebmd marriages to come up, deaths and births yes.. going back into ancestry and searching through the FBMD marriages I find the marriage, but it is a very convoluted way of finding things! [I have always searched this way and had the info come up]

[AntonyM]

It's because you have an exact date of birth selected ( even with a +/- option) .... GRO marrriage indexes don't have an age , so as soon as you put in that as an exact search parameter you will get no responses.

[Darksecretz]

It's because you have an exact date of birth selected ( even with a +/- option) .... GRO marrriage indexes don't have an age , so as soon as you put in that as an exact search parameter you will get no responses.

oh, I guess that ancestry have moved the goalposts again then?

presumably then if I want to look for any info including a marriage I don't specify a yob?

bit backwards if you ask me

[Darksecretz]

I see what you are saying Antony, I have just tried it without a yob and got the result first hit!.. why oh why they have to fiddle about with it is beyond me! if it aint broke don't fix it!..

I will try and remember this way of searching in the future

thank you as you have saved my sanity! [explains a lot of searching and frustration I had last night!]

[Chrissie Smiff]

I tend to use this page Julie, I find it much quicker and easier -

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/rectype/vital/freebmd/bmd.aspx

[Anne in Carlisle]

Why not use FreeBMD itself? I nearly always use it for pre 1916 events in preferece to Ancestry.
Anne

[Darksecretz]

I tend to use this page Julie, I find it much quicker and easier -
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/...eebmd/bmd.aspx

a lot of a faff though!

Why not use FreeBMD itself? I nearly always use it for pre 1916 events in preferece to Ancestry.
Anne

I do Anne if I can't get any joy on Ancestry..

[AntonyM]

As far as I know it has always worked that way - you can't search using an exact restriction based on age/dob for an entry that has no age data and expect to find anything . Makes sense if you think about it.

(I also use FreeBMD for pre 1916 searches most of the time).

Antony

[Darksecretz]

As far as I know it has always worked that way - you can't search using an exact restriction based on age/dob for an entry that has no age data and expect to find anything . Makes sense if you think about it.

(I also use FreeBMD for pre 1916 searches most of the time).

Antony

it must be how they have jigged about with the new 'search' function, it always used to work that when I searched for someone and that I entered their name rough DOB/POB that all kinds of info would pop up BMD's inclusive. But not now.

[Elaine]

I tend to use the familysearch page as it connects to the pay per view site/sometimes a parish record IGI and the parameters are better now the other site has changed somewhat.

[Darksecretz]

I tend to use the familysearch page as it connects to the pay per view site/sometimes a parish record IGI and the parameters are better now the other site has changed somewhat.

'ello you hope you are well? I have been tying myself up in Whitwick again [Lydalls] I really need to get my head around this lot, the cluster of varying Lydalls in WW are all connected I think, just need to focus and try and sort them out.

[Elaine]

All good here, starting a thread then?

I have just found my first Gertrude Wills record so feeling lucky!

[Darksecretz]

All good here, starting a thread then?

I have just found my first Gertrude Wills record so feeling lucky!

ooh

yea I'll give it a go.. not sure how well i'll go though! [was sidetracked looking at records!]