Using Ancestry is there a way..............?

[Glen in Tinsel Knickers]

That you can pull up all the GRO refs for a surname covering 1920ish to date?

I'm missing heaps of births, marriages and deaths for my one name study and not having used Ancestry for ages (and still not having a sub) i'm behind the times with what the site now offers.

[Anne in Carlisle]

Yes, you can put in just a surname and range of years from 1916 onwards in Ancestry. You would have to do the births, marriages and death searches separately though.

I like these later years searches on Ancestry. I just checked it out for you with a very rare name on my tree. I selected births, 1935+/-20 and the top dozen or so were the actual name then it started on those with that name as mother's maiden name.

Anne

[Glen in Tinsel Knickers]

Thanks Anne

I'll have to try and wangle a 14 day trial and block book the library pc.

I doubt there are that many entries for the name i want (less than 400 events on freebmd and it's a name thats getting rarer).

[Kate P]

Lots of libraries have free ancestry to the public on an institutional subscription anyway Glen, check next time you're in.

Kate x

[Glen in Tinsel Knickers]

Hi Kate

Sadly the Scottish libraries don't subscribe, most don't even allow access to the IGI!!