Findmypast - The Fully Indexed Births Are Here.

[LizzieW]

Just received this from FindMyPast.

From today there is a significant change in how you can access our birth records. You can now search fully indexed birth records for 1837 to 2006 on findmypast.co.uk

and

What makes the fully indexed birth records so useful?

    * Your search results will be in the form of a list of individual names, so you won't have to check through pages of records to find your ancestors

    * You can search the complete 1837-2006 set of birth records in one go or by one or more counties at a time

    * The images of the index pages are completely new and very high quality

    * We've added smart search features including name variants

    * There are clever search results to get around the quirks of the records, including the GRO's procedure of initialising second names, and records of children unnamed at registration (very common in the Victorian period)

    * You can now search by mother's and father's name at the same time to help find those elusive births

I hope the bit I've put in bold really works, just off to try it.

Lizzie

[LizzieW]

Oh well, I tried a search for my mysterious g.grandfather between 1850 and 1860 and got some results but with this comment:

Mother's Maiden Name:     Not available before 1911 Q3

How disappointing, I was hoping they would have re-transcribed the 1837 to 1911 BMDs.

Lizzie

[Ceeoh]

I am open to correction here, but wasn't it only around the time of W.W.1 that the mother's name was also included on the GRO records?

Ceeoh

[stonechat]

You're right
The ill-fated Dove/Magpie project was going to add these to the  GRO indexes.

Hope the replaement one will

Bob

[carol8353]

I am open to correction here, but wasn't it only around the time of W.W.1 that the mother's name was also included on the GRO records?

Ceeoh

Sept 1/4 of 1911 

Carol

[Gadget]

Well, whatever  you all say, I think it's really good  - much better that the opposition 

Instead of all those pages offering the GRO index, we have just a list that we can click on.


Gadget

[JenB]

How disappointing, I was hoping they would have re-transcribed the 1837 to 1911 BMDs.

Presumably you'd be willing to pay a vast increase in your subscription to cover the cost of such a Herculean task.

I agree with Gadget - I've just tried it out and so far think it's excellent.

Jennifer

[kptz]

I wonder if they will do the same for the marriage and death index..

[JenB]

From their website:
We're working on a project to fully index the marriage and death records which we expect to complete by the end of the year.
http://www.findmypast.co.uk/media/news/news-item.jsp?doc=fullyindexedbirths.html