Genealogy Chat

I get this now when I click on marriages:

England & Wales, Marriage Index: 1916-2005

This will make things SO much easier.

Not working yet though.

UPDATE: It's working now.


Rose

I'm not even getting that message when I click on marriages.

Kath. x

Kathleen,

It used to say:

Marriages
Marriages 1837 – 1915 (transcribed by FreeBMD)
Marriages 1984 - 2005 (transcribed)
Marriage Indexes 1837 – 1983

The last one is now missing.

If you click on Marriages 1984 - 2005 (transcribed) it should take you to England & Wales, Marriage Index: 1916-2005.

Rose

im not getting the Marriage Indexes 1837 – 1983
tab and Im not getting the England & Wales, Marriage Index: 1916-2005
either.
I have just returned to resaerching and everything has changed
I need to find a marriage in the 1920-40 indexs...any idea how I would do this. I am looking into an adoption and am on a hot lead....... frustration abounds at mo!

Trish,

Click on "Marriages 1984 - 2005" and then click on "If searching for marriages before 1984, please click here "


Or try this link: http://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=8965

Rose

thankyou so much....hopefully i find what i am looking for :-)

Great - thanks it is up and running I have just found my marriage on there for 1961 - so easy. Regards Irene

Thanks for sharing this! Probably wouldn't have noticed.
Jan

Thanks Rose. I haven't looked on Ancestry for a little while so it'll give me a whole lot of stuff to look up.

Sue

You say that it is not working yet?
I entered wilkins wiltshire 1948-1950 in the main search box.
result;
133 England & Wales, Birth Index: 1916-2005
61 England & Wales, Marriage Index: 1916-2005
If I click on the marriage index all the entries have an image
and below the results there is a further search box to refine the search.

OMG
All the marriages for my family are on one page.
My parents/uncle/us/daughter/neice /nephew/sisters3
Thank you Rose xxxxxx

hooray hooray hooray, at last with names like Jones, Smith, Roberts, Edwards no more painful trawling quarter by quarter

however wouldn't it be nice if they called it Marriages 1916-2005 fully transcribed instead of expecting us all to be telepathic and know that Marriages 1984-2005 fully transcribed actually means 1916-2005!!!!

How disappointing! I thought you meant we could actually find the entry with the names of both partners (instead of having to send for certificates). I do find it frustrating when working with censuses not to know the unmarried name of the wife, making it difficult to trace the blood line through the grandmotherly lines.

Hi
That is fantastic,just found four marriages I could not find before after days of searching those Indexes .
Thankyou for bring it to our attention.Susan

Elizabeth, you can find the wife's maiden name / husband's name, if you click on View Record and then on Find Spouse it will show you the other "half" of the marriage. Helen

Helen - thank you so much! I immediately tried it out with the name of a known marry-in and it worked! i have seen these collections of possibles quoted before but didn't know where they came from. I have only just joined Ancestry - I look forward to some sessions with all the census forms I have to look for new leads.

I've just spent 10 minutes on Ancestry and filled in 5 marriages on my tree - and that's just for one branch of the family. Roll on the weekend when I can sit with a list and fill in a lot more. I think it will also give me some more info. to check on because I've found marriages for a couple of people who carry common family names and live in the same areas as ancestors but who I didn't know about - people born around the 1930's. Good searching everyone:)

Sue

It's stopped working for me now. Just getting the marriages since 1984 again.

Rose

Just seen this thread,went and tried it and
sob, sob,
getting exactly the same as you rose.

You are not the only one having trouble,