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04 May 2011A single search for all our births and marriages
Findmypast.co.uk has always had the most comprehensive England & Wales birth and marriage records – now we’ve added our exclusive additional records to create one simple search.
As well as England & Wales records, you can now search for your British ancestors’ births and marriages in our overseas, military and at sea records, some of which date back to 1761.
You won’t find a search this powerful including all these records anywhere else. It means that you can now find previously elusive births and marriages from a single search.
When you search for a birth record, one search will provide you with results from the following sets of records:
- England & Wales births 1837-2006
- British nationals born overseas 1818-2005
- British nationals born in the army 1761-2005
- British nationals born at sea 1854-1887
Below is an example of how your search results will look:
Note the wide variety of countries and places. Sort your results by country and place by clicking on each column heading.
We’ve given our marriage records the same treatment. Search once for your ancestors’ marriages in the following records:
- England & Wales marriages 1837-2005
- British nationals married overseas 1818-2005
- British nationals married in the army 1796-2005
- British nationals married at sea 1854-1908
We’re very close to completing our project to fully name index our death records. Once this is complete, we will combine all our death records into one search to finish the series.
Try our new search now to see how many ancestors you can find.
I’ve tried this and while it has many advantages there’s one disadvantage to me – the inablity to select more than one country from the list. Unless I’m missing something it is either all or one. I’d like to be able to select England and Wales together for those family who may cross the border, but aren’t at all likely to be overseas or military. As it is I’m either getting a longer list with people who are unlikely to be relevant or having to remember to check whichever of England or Wales I haven’t done first.