Online English BMDs

Post by **emanday** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 5:36 pm

For those of us who have rellies who came from or moved South of the Border this could be good news. Me for one

http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/news/ ... ternet.asp

"The electronic index for the majority of birth registrations and deaths registrations from 1837 to 1958 is expected to be available by early 2008, providing an option for the public to trace an index reference online and request the certificate at the same time without the need to visit a central facility"

Post by **SarahND** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 9:04 pm

Good news, Mary! Now what about the OPRs?

I guess there'll be another wait on that... mustn't be greedy

Sarah

mcblondie · Post by **mcblondie** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 12:07 pm

That's great...

Seeing as i have one relative, my g.grandfather who was one of 5/6 was the only one born south of the border.

Post by **Tracey** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 12:26 pm

Doesnt this only mean that you can search on there rather than say freebmd or 1837 (as was) but with a link to ordering the certificate, we are still not going to be able to download the information or am i misreading it ?

Post by **emanday** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 2:05 pm

Tracey, I'm hoping that it means that we will be able to search for an individual rather than be presented with loads of pages that are alphabetically possible containers of our rellies as with FindMyFamily (1837).

That, in itself, would be an improvement. Having to use up credits just to discover that even the surname you asked for isn't actually there - irritating to say the least. I do use FMF, though.

I think that if they were planning to provide scanned images of the docs they would have made sure that was mentioned. Still, we can always hope they finally catch up with SP

BarbR · Post by **BarbR** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:30 pm

Maybe you already knew this, but Ancestry has the complete (1837 -1983) England & Wales BMD indexes available to search for free, NO sub required, but you may need to create a login - so no need to use your credits at findmypast

http://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/rectyp ... d/bmd.aspx

Barbara

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 10:07 pm

Aye, but the FreeBMD English and Welsh indexes are far from complete.

This quote from the FeeeBMD site - "PLEASE NOTE: WE HAVE NOT YET TRANSCRIBED THE WHOLE INDEX. A breakdown by event and year can be viewed here", -

"here" being http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/progress.shtml

David

BarbR · Post by **BarbR** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 1:14 am

David,

I was not meaning that it was all transcribed, as on freeBMD, although that is also available. The Ancestry site works like 1837 used to, in that you get the relevant page which may contain what you are looking for and then you have to hunt down the list to see if they were registered.
Sorry if I misled you.

Barbara