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could any one plz tell me how i would go about tracing peoples children... i have a couple ..alfred h slater who married eleanor sarah martin in march 1917 at west ham ..and i think they had a son john alfred slater but i have found no record of this and wondered how i could ... i have no date of birth for john alfred..any help would b great ..thanx

Slater John A Martin Chelmsford 4a 1188

june 1922


the only one on free bdm

You can use http://freebmd.rootsweb.com up to about 1925. From late 1911 the mother's surname is included in the registration. So you search the surname looking for the mother's surname to pair them up.

After 1925 you will need the complete registration index and have to search quarter by quarter, year by year. Complete registrations on Ancestry or Find My Past.

thank you very much for your help..how did you find that? and does it name his parents?

http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl

Try it Lorraine, you could find the info quicker than putting up posts.

thank you pam ..im pretty new to all those webistes so hope its easy to understand ..but ill give it a go....

the parents are slater and Martin you will need the birth cert; to prove its the right one

thank you nerine... those are the surnames i have so seems pretty sure it is the 1 im looking for ...

thanx for every1s help on this matter..like i said pretty new to this but im learnin from you kind people more every day...

Lorraine

If you go to the site and do a search for births of Surname Slater, Mothers Surname Martin after 1910 in Chelmsford. You should see another name registered on the same page. Was your John a twin?

Its the only one on free bdm after the marrige so you will have to search like pam said year by year for any other children, have you searched the trees on GR

i have tried to order a birth certificate but i only have the month and the year how can i find out the day or is there a way of ordering without the day?

david i dont know any thing about john only his full name , i have no idea if he had any siblings

well i we to the website i was given to order certificates and they are asking for full date of birth day /month/year do you know of another website thati can order by post wherei dont have to put in the full birth date?

ok i got it now i was filling out the form wrong ..ty every1

Don't order certificates from any other site. Always use GRO

Marriages Mar 1917 (99%)
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Martin Eleanor S Slater W.Ham 4a 581
Slater Alfred H Martin W. Ham 4a 581