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Finding the location of a marriage using GMI, FreeBMD and other sources

Learn how to find the location of a marriage using FreeBMD, GMI, and other sources. Follow a step-by-step process to download, sort, and analyze marriage entries to determine the probable location of a marriage. Discover useful tips and tricks for navigating through available records.

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Finding the location of a marriage using GMI, FreeBMD and other sources

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  1. Finding the location of a marriage using GMI, FreeBMD and other sources Andrew Millard

  2. Marriage entry of interest

  3. First download all entries from the district and quarter from FreeBMD

  4. Copy the tab-delimited text file and paste into Excel • Use text-to-columns if needed

  5. Sort the entries by page number

  6. Add a formula to count the number of entries with the same page number • And another to calculate the difference between page numbers, and fill down

  7. Use conditional formatting to highlight incomplete pages with less than eight names …

  8. … and where the page numbers change by more than one

  9. Easy to see the probable page numbers where the marriages from each church end

  10. Search the GMI for that quarter and volume • Only two entries – not very hopeful!

  11. Enter those churches against the page numbers • Ann SINFIELD seems to be only a couple of churches away

  12. Go to the GENUKI list for that RD • 17 Civil Parishes in 1850 (which probably match Ecclesiastical parishes in this rural area)

  13. Flitton Flitwick Haynes Higham Gobion Houghton Conquest Lidlington Lower Gravenhurst Marston Moretaine • Identify potential churches (but don’t know exact method of alphabetical sort in GRO index) • Some are on IGI, so…

  14. … use Hugh Wallis IGI batch number site • Check out Marston Moretaine and Lower Gravenhurst for that year

  15. Flitton Flitwick Haynes Higham Gobion Houghton Conquest Lidlington Lower Gravenhurst Marston Moretaine • Enter that church against the page number • Most likely Houghton Conquest or Lidlington

  16. A shortlist of two parishes from an original 17 – pretty good for a few minutes work • Not always as good as this – sometimes order of churches is difficult to establish • Actually this marriage is on the IGI too • And the order of churches is unexpected: the church between Flitton and Haynes is not Flitwick but Upper Gravenhurst

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