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Title: Another new starter !! need some help
Post by: robie on Wednesday 19 September 07 22:09 BST (UK)

Hi,
Just started and like others find this totally fascinating hobby and ending up with more questions than answers.

My first question is on finding information about deaths especially of someone who is my great grandfather Walter Edward Waddilove who lived in Edmonton London. He was born in 1876, married in 1903, (info from Free bmd) but I can’t find when or where he died, or his wife Bertha.  How do I find the information?

Title: Re: Another new starter !! need some help
Post by: willow2670 on Wednesday 19 September 07 23:37 BST (UK)

Hello Robie

Welcome to Rootchat   :D

You can check the birth, death & marriage index at

http://www.ancestry.co.uk/

Make sure you check the complete index.

Sue

Title: Re: Another new starter !! need some help
Post by: Canuc on Thursday 20 September 07 00:05 BST (UK)

Ancestry has its uses, but if you cannot get your reli to appear then I'd go for www.findmypast.com which has few accuracy problems. Ancestry will search whole data sets in one hit, findmypast is a quarter by quarter search process. It could be worse, you could have been doing it by hand hauling the registers off the shelf - I'm far too young to be saying in my day  :-\  :)

Happy hunting
Canuc

Title: Re: Another new starter !! need some help
Post by: willow2670 on Thursday 20 September 07 00:09 BST (UK)

Quote from: Canuc on Thursday 20 September 07 00:05 BST (UK)

Ancestry has its uses...

and its free   ;D

Title: Re: Another new starter !! need some help
Post by: lizdb on Thursday 20 September 07 10:42 BST (UK)

But only the partial database is free, and that fades out after 1910 ish, so unlikely to help here.

The complete index, available on both ancestry and findmypast, is a quarter by quarter search, and is pay to view.

Title: Re: Another new starter !! need some help
Post by: lizdb on Thursday 20 September 07 10:45 BST (UK)

there was a girl in my sons class at school a few years ago called Waddilove -  only time I have ever heard the name

Welcome to Rootschat by the way!!
Just noticed this is your first post!

Just to add, if you are in reach of London, yuo can look through the index books manually (as has been mentioned) at theFRC in Islington.
Sometimes, if you dont live too far away, a day return train fare can be cheaper than credits on a pay to view site.
You also have the advantage ofbeing able to browse, rather than doing a specific look up for one particualr thing - so yuo often end up finding things you ddint even know you were looking for!!!!

Waddilove should be a great name to pursue, being unusual