Genealogy Chat

Well, does sound like you need a bit more practice doesnt it! I dont know what you are doing wrong. If you go to ancestry, below the search box you will see some of the info available, including the BMD Index. Click on that and you will see the completed index for births, marriages and deaths and below that the freebmd partial index. The freebmd index is the one that comes up with results from just entering a name search. The complete index requires you to click on a year or span of years and then look at each quarter's image. Ive just gone to look for them and its def there. In this case on the complete index, click on Marriages, enter the name - Norman L Nichols enter 1946 and the 3rd quarter July/Aug/Sept. The image will load, look down the listings under the surname Nichols and you will come to Norman L and the reference. Try again. You then use that ref to buy the full certificate from GRO online for £7. Dont know what you mean about entering a birth date - the dates only come up that are available, if its not there they will give you closest matches.

Thankyou so much for your help. I began to think I was going mad because I knew they were married from a letter which my husbands father sent to him explaining about his birth cert when he wanted it to get a passport. How ever I know I must be stupid because I have used the link suggested and the info from stephanie vol5c page 575 and i still can not find the wedding. What am i doing wrong it's driving me mad. Also why is it when you put in a year of birth on ancestory do you get every year but? i'm i doing something wrong once again? Bridget

Well done Stephanie. Perhaps Bridget you could go to ancestry and look at the complete index and find these entries yourself for practice how to do it. http://www*ancestry*co*uk/search/rectype/vital/freebmd/bmd*aspx (Change the asterisks to full stops in the above address) You can then order that marriage cert with the reference given at this address: tick the box that asks if you have the GRO ref http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/ The marriage cert will give you both the couples fathers names and occupations, where the couple were living at the time of the marriage and their occupations, the names of the witnesses which is sometimes very useful. . Good luck.

Norman L Nichols married Friar or Blunt in Camberwell this is the other half of hte marriage therefore Jessie Blunt used to be Jessie Friar

Jessie Blunt married a Nichols in the 3rd quarter of 1946 in camberwell ref: Vol - 5c Page No - 575

Well, if its his ancestry you want to get info on, then you need to buy that birth cert you found for his dad - which will give your husbands paternal grandparents names. Once you have his father and mothers full names you can then look at the 1901 census to find them probably before they married. If you buy their marriage cert you will get their fathers names. You do this, working backwards through the censi/certificates. Certificates cost £7 each from GRO online. You use that reference that you found to order it and they are taking about a week to come now. You really need to get a sub to ancestry for all the censi plus lots of other stuff - also get yourself a decent family tree program that can print reports and trees and add photos. Did his father have a war record or his grandfather? You could check out National Archives for medal cards. I take it he had no siblings to ask questions of? Are you absolutely sure his parents married at all? Why are you sure its 1946 Camberwell? Where are you looking for the marriage? The freebmd section (the one where you just enter names) of ancestry will not cover 1946 - you need to look through the complete index on there, going through each quarter of the years and looking at the index images. Ill bump up some newbie threads you should read through.

I'm trying to do my husbands family tree. He died last year knowing nothing much about his family.I have found his dads birth Norman L Nichols Coventry Jan - Mar 1913 Vol 6d page 1403 mothers maiden name Liversidge.on ancestry.co But thats it. I can't find anything else any where else. Where else should i be looking? I know my husband was born out of wedlock I have birth cert 26/3/46 Mothers name Jessie Blunt his name is given as Christopher Norman Blunt and a depole sept 46 changing his name to Christopher Norman liversidge Nichols. I also know both his parents were married before. I cannot even find record of their marriage which I know was in 1946 camberwell. If someone could help I would be so grateful. Its my sons 18th on Monday and it would be nice to give him some info about his roots. Thanks Bridget