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  • Ordering British Armed Forces Marriage Cert

    From Jenny M Benson@21:1/5 to All on Wed Aug 18 12:20:13 2021
    I want to order a Marriage Certificate having found an entry in FMP's
    British Armed Forces Overseas Banns & Marriages collection. The only
    date given in 1818-64, but when I go to the GRO site to place an order,
    they require the date of registration of the marriage and will search
    one year either side of the given date. I think I can narrow the
    probable range of the marriage date to about 4 years but does one really
    have to make possibly several repeated searches (at a cost, no doubt)
    until one hits on the right year?
    --
    Jenny M Benson

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  • From Charles Ellson@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Wed Aug 18 17:08:39 2021
    On Wed, 18 Aug 2021 12:20:13 +0100, Jenny M Benson
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    I want to order a Marriage Certificate having found an entry in FMP's
    British Armed Forces Overseas Banns & Marriages collection. The only
    date given in 1818-64, but when I go to the GRO site to place an order,
    they require the date of registration of the marriage and will search
    one year either side of the given date. I think I can narrow the
    probable range of the marriage date to about 4 years but does one really
    have to make possibly several repeated searches (at a cost, no doubt)
    until one hits on the right year?

    Have you tried the LDS Familysearch site?
    https://www.familysearch.org/en/

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  • From Athel Cornish-Bowden@21:1/5 to Charles Ellson on Thu Aug 19 14:00:52 2021
    On 2021-08-18 16:08:39 +0000, Charles Ellson said:

    On Wed, 18 Aug 2021 12:20:13 +0100, Jenny M Benson
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    I want to order a Marriage Certificate having found an entry in FMP's
    British Armed Forces Overseas Banns & Marriages collection. The only
    date given in 1818-64, but when I go to the GRO site to place an order,
    they require the date of registration of the marriage and will search
    one year either side of the given date. I think I can narrow the
    probable range of the marriage date to about 4 years but does one really
    have to make possibly several repeated searches (at a cost, no doubt)
    until one hits on the right year?

    Have you tried the LDS Familysearch site?
    https://www.familysearch.org/en/

    Yes, but treat any results with scepticism. I have just searched for
    myself on that site and was surprised and distressed to learn that I
    was dead. However, even in that state I'm still eligible to become a
    Mormon (something I won't do if I have the choice).


    --
    Athel -- French and British, living mainly in England until 1987.

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  • From Charles Ellson@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Aug 19 15:30:09 2021
    On Thu, 19 Aug 2021 14:00:52 +0200, Athel Cornish-Bowden
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 2021-08-18 16:08:39 +0000, Charles Ellson said:

    On Wed, 18 Aug 2021 12:20:13 +0100, Jenny M Benson
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    I want to order a Marriage Certificate having found an entry in FMP's
    British Armed Forces Overseas Banns & Marriages collection. The only
    date given in 1818-64, but when I go to the GRO site to place an order,
    they require the date of registration of the marriage and will search
    one year either side of the given date. I think I can narrow the
    probable range of the marriage date to about 4 years but does one really >>> have to make possibly several repeated searches (at a cost, no doubt)
    until one hits on the right year?

    Have you tried the LDS Familysearch site?
    https://www.familysearch.org/en/

    Yes, but treat any results with scepticism. I have just searched for
    myself on that site and was surprised and distressed to learn that I
    was dead. However, even in that state I'm still eligible to become a
    Mormon (something I won't do if I have the choice).

    There is a lot of primary material which they haven't indexed but
    others (like FMP and miscellaneous GRO registers) have inadequately
    indexed, often because it was done before you could chuck all the
    important bits into a computer and get a decent output.

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