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Grumpelstiltskin

minimacka wrote: »

I am doing a memory book for my MIL 70th birthday and I cannot remember when her sister got married. It was around 2000 is there anyway I can find out for free what the date was. I cant ask her as she has moved away and I don't have any details of where,and my MIL cannot remember.


Thanks in advance for any help.
MM

As long as the wedding was in England or Wales you should find it here.


http://www.freebmd.org.uk/


Problem is it isn't complete. If you have problems send me a PM with the details and I will look.


BTW You won't find the exact date only the quarter of the year the marriage was registered. To find the exact date you will have to buy the certificate at a cost of £9.25.

Tipsntreats

I am doing a memory book for my MIL 70th birthday and I cannot remember when her sister got married. It was around 2000 is there anyway I can find out for free what the date was. I cant ask her as she has moved away and I don't have any details of where,and my MIL cannot remember.


Free BMD will probably NOT have this information. PM me and I will get my genealogist onto it.
Now, some counties have a lovely free site, I know that the Isle of Wight does. The info there is often more up to date. Google local free BMD and see if the county you are looking for has a site. These are run by local family historians. I will have a look later and add a link.
Tips x

THIRZAH

Cambridgeshire have something called CAMDEX which is also free and available through the local family history site but I'm not sure if it goes up to 2000 yet

Tipsntreats

http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/local_bmd
Try this.
Tips x

Tipsntreats

I just wanted to have some fun today!
I have just returned home from a funeral (a friend). So now you will get a taste of my wit.
Touching on a previous post, that stated that none of us know what gender any of us are.

On some internet sites you have to tick a box, to submit. I can tell you all I AM NOT A ROBOT.
I am a female, and I always have been since birth, (I watch Eastenders).
I really am rather like my Avatar, except I have blonde hair.
Now, where is All the nice girls like a sailor Sam? Are you a sailor Samantha? Mmm I thought not.

I have been trying to figure out how I can insert some images into my thread. My son had to change my Avatar. Well, I just told you I was a dizzy blonde.
I wanted to add little cartoons with captions like - I can't see the wood for the trees. Or do all genealogists come out of lamps? On a previous thread on OS What's this noise???? On the last page someone posted a picture. It just summed the whole thing up, and it made me laugh for ages.

Well, 'That's all for now folks' In the words of Arnie "I'll be back"

PS Mary Shelley the author of Frankenstein is buried in my town, if any of you are related to either of them.
Tips x

PasturesNew

Tipsntreats wrote: »

PS Mary Shelley the author of Frankenstein is buried in my town, if any of you are related to either of them.
Tips x

Shelley, the poet, died and his wife kept his heart. It is buried with her.
There is a tomb in the Priory commemorating Shelley and his wife, even though they're not buried there.

It's a biggun ... cos dey wuz posh folks

Tipsntreats

Is there any body there? I was about to get the Ouija board out.
I was not surprised to see on our local news in the South, the statement inter-bred.
When I was tracing my husbands Mothers side, all from the Isle of Wight, I found cousins marrying cousins. I suppose it was acceptable back then, But, it just made me feel uncomfortable. So I stopped on that side.

Farway

Tipsntreats wrote: »

Is there any body there? I was about to get the Ouija board out.
I was not surprised to see on our local news in the South, the statement inter-bred.
When I was tracing my husbands Mothers side, all from the Isle of Wight, I found cousins marrying cousins. I suppose it was acceptable back then, But, it just made me feel uncomfortable. So I stopped on that side.

Cousins marrying was common, and not just Isle of Wight or Norfolk. The thing was they never knew they were cousins after a few generations, and very little travel beyond next village for most people, including mine from Devon

We only know they were cousins becuase we now have access to and can research the records, they never had access, nor could they read even if they had access

THIRZAH

Although seven of my eight great grandparents came from Cambridgeshire and I can trace their family trees back to at least the 1700s I have found no cases of cousins marrying. My grandparents were fifth or sixth cousins but apart from that we don't seem to have gone in for inter-marriage.

Tipsntreats

That is true Faraway. I think even far back it was expected, I was remembering Gone with the Wind.
It is a well known fact in a place called Shorewell (pronounced Shoroll by the locals), that the result of the past, effected many of the villagers now. Never seen any evidence myself, old wives tales, I think.

I have to admit certain things just shock me at times. Like finding old wedding registrations signed with a X, their mark. But, if it wasn't for them, we wouldn't be here today, would we?