Can anyone read this????

[Keren]

  No was looking for their deaths, John/James died prior to 1865, and hopefully a marriage.

Re info on birth cert. I havent got much more info on mine from the 60's its just legible.  Can get them much quicker from gro but its the original copied.

[Ceci]

Short birth certificates are of little value for family historians. I have one in front of me for my Grandmother born in 1893 which gives

Name
Surname
Sex
Date of birth
Registration District
Registration Sub District
Date registered
Number

The full certificate has the details as on the scanned image above, but the parents place of birth and mother's occupation was presumably only included on the more recent ones. I'm pretty sure those details appear on our children's full birth certificates (1979 & 1981), but they have those themselves so I can't check right now.

Hope this helps,
Ceci

[Keren]

  Think I have just found the death details, forgot all about freebmd site! and have a marriage with some grooms missing, so might try to get cert for that, just double checked it on ancestry.com and missing of that as well.
keren

[MaryA]

I've heard that Ancestry just use the FreeBMD database so there won't be any additional info on their site.

[Keren]

  so does the 1837 site have different info?? I have spent a fortune on there and found out nothing, just had to wade thro pages of info I didnt want.

[MaryA]

FreeBMD and any other similar sites buy copies of the indexes as they can afford them and volunteers transcribe and upload them to the site.  Until they can purchase every index of every quarter of every year and the volunteers finish the transcriptions unfortunately there will be gaps.

The 1837 site has the FULL indexes for all births, marriages and deaths.  It is exactly the same as those held in Record Offices etc.  Apart from them being complete the other advantage is that you get to decide for yourself what the handwriting says, instead of relying on somebody else's interpretation.  Having said that, their interpretation is usually excellent as they also have a checker to minimise errors.