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From: "bob campbell" <>
Subject: Re: [Ess] FREE BMD and GRO images
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 16:55:58 +1000
References: <C2D0D9E8.18AE3%ruth@macs.hw.ac.uk><00c801c7d103$6c488eb0$0302a8c0@NEWCOMP>


I would add to Andy's comment, that so far I have found marriage and birth
indexes on FreeBMD up to 1919.
I did a bit of transcribing when time permitted a couple of years back, and
found it very interesting, not too time consuming and you didn't have to
have a degree in computer science to make a worthwhile contribution. It's a
small gesture by way of repaying all the very kind help received on the
message lists these past years.
For us with little patience I checked the current availability of the GRO
images on FreeBMD which also available for "free" viewing and their coverage
seems to go to 1935!
Regarding the latest paid for databases introduced to Ancestry are a
comprehensive listing from HO11 for convicts transported to Australia and
elsewhere.
cheers
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Hedgcock" <>
To: "Ruth Aylett" <>; "J. Buck"
<>; <>
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2007 8:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Ess] ANCESTRY FREE BMD


Then some of us will just have to be patient and wait for FreeBMD to
continue the very good job that they do.
Andy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ruth Aylett" <>
To: "Andy Hedgcock" <>; "J. Buck"
<>; <>
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2007 11:32 AM
Subject: Re: [Ess] ANCESTRY FREE BMD


>> Hi Jan
>> Personally I think we should be grateful we had a freebie, even for a
>> short
>> while, on a commercial site. Findmypast has reasonable credits for
>> searching
>> the Indexes.
>
> But this misses the point: BMD indexes are PUBLIC information which have
> now
> apparently been given to a commercial organisation for their profit. As a
> monopoly too I think. And at the point at which the Family Records Centre
> is
> closing.
>
> Ruth
> --
> Ruth Aylett Professor of Computer
> Science
> Mathematics and Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University
> Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK Tel: 44-131-451-4189 Fax: 44-131-451-3327
> http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~ruth/ "Life is beautiful"
>
>
>





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