Spouse not FoundYou may have reached this page because you have clicked on the Page Number in order to try to find possible spouses for an entry (as described here) but this facility was not available for the entry. The reason the facility is not available is that either or both of the Volume and Page were not readable when the index was transcribed. This is indicated by the presence of special characters in these fields as explained here.
Alternatively, you may have come to this page to find out how you can find a spouse where their name does not appear in the spouse search results.
The normal spouse search facility works by searching for entries for marriages with the same quarter, volume and page number as the original entry. You can do the same search manually by entering these values in the fields of a search, thus:
| Type | Marriage |
| Date range | Set both start and end to the same as the original |
| Volume | Set to the same as the original |
| Page | Set to the same as the original |
symbol next to it then the scan from which the transcription was made is available. Click on the
symbol to view the scan and see if you can make a better guess at the Volume and/or Page Number.
_ (Underscore) |
A single uncertain character. It could be anything but is definitely one character. It can be repeated for each uncertain character. |
* (Asterisk) |
Several adjacent uncertain characters. A single * is used when there are 1 or more adjacent uncertain characters. It is not used immediately before or after a _ or another *.
Note: If it is clear there is a space, then * * is used to represent 2 words, neither of which can be read.
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[abc] |
A single character that could be any one of the contained characters and only those characters. There must be at least two characters between the brackets. For example, [79] would mean either a 7 or a 9, whereas [C_] would mean a C or some other character.
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{min,max} |
Repeat count - the preceding character occurs somehere between min and max times. max may be omitted, meaning
there is no upper limit. So _{1,} would be equivalent to *, and _{0,1} means that it is unclear if there
is any character. Ensure the complete field is enclosed in quotes to avoid the comma
being taken as a field separator, e.g. "williams{0,1}".
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? (Question mark) |
Only used where it is unambiguous that the source data is actually missing from a column, e.g a missing Volume.
Note: If it is unclear whether the column is empty or not _{0,1} is used.
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