BMD and Electoral Access HELP!!!

CLLC

:DHi MSE's i have been trying to search for websites where they give you free access to birth, marriage and death records and the electoral register:D

but All the websites i go on want to charge me:o

;)I'm trying to track down some old friends of mine;)

:eek: Can someone please help:eek:

shadyone

I know what you mean!
Have you tried Facebook or Friends Reunited just in case they are on there? (Not good if they have Smith as a name though!)

Just a thought do you know which County as some record offices have indexes of records on-line but if you know the right area you can go there and search the electoral role for free at the Council Offices I think?

Lugh_Chronain

Not sure if this will help, but have tried The National Archives website? Maybe if you try phoning them they might be able to advise otherwise. 020 8876 3444

KILL_BILL

http://www.familysearch.org/ is a usefull site which lists records from the churches and was transcribed by the colds ( church of later day saints)

theres is also http://www.freebmd.org.uk/ which is usefull if you know the age etc of the person - with this though the records are split in quarters for each year - so for example if a person was born in april they may not appear until the next quarter - may onwards registrer

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Iain_M

This page http://www.bl.uk/collections/social/spis_tlp.html#er
from the British Library website lists at the bottom various websites which may be of help in your search for old friends.

Please however note the following sections from the stated webpage:

"This resource page is designed to help people who have lost contact with a friend, a former work colleague or a relative in the recent past and wish to try and trace them. It is not intended for those compiling their family tree or tracing distant anscestors."

"The printed registers [of electors] for each constituency are arranged by polling district. The arrangement within polling districts is normally by street in alphabetical order, within which properties are in street number order. There are no alphabetical indexes of voters.

Because of this arrangement, the printed electoral registers are of very little use for tracing named individuals. All they can do is help you to establish how long a known individual lived at a given address. The disappearance of a name from the electoral registers usually means that the person has moved home, married or died. The registers will not tell you which."