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Was just reading this news story, which is just a puff piece for 1837online.com, which has lots of info, but you have to pay to access it... at the bottom of the news story there's a brief mention of a FREE BMD (births marriages and deaths) site, which I've found is freebmd.rootsweb.com (aka freebmd.org.uk... They have about 90% of the content of 1837 online, and it's all free!
I wouldn't go to freebmd.com, it only has sponsored links to other sites, not the free stuff that rootsweb has above!
The Free BMD site is supported by The Bunker, who also host popbitch.com, I know them, small world...
2003 :: Comment / reply
FreeBMD is a great free resource. It does not only have links to pay sites as one person said, but has a searcheable database of the BMD transcriptions. It is a volunteer project and will take some time to complete, but is well worth it.
1837 only has scanned documents and no proper index and you have to pay.
John :: 16 Jan :: 2004 :: Comment / reply
I was talking about freebmd.com, not freebmd.rootsweb.com which is the one I think is brilliant
16 Jan :: 2004 :: Comment / reply
I've not paid or anything, but it looks like 1837online.com has only scanned in documents, not transcribed.
19 Dec :: 2003 :: Comment / reply
Friday afternoon, purchased 55 credits to use the site,searching for my Grandfather's 1903 marriage. Wasted 5 credits by being shown either blank pages or a printed index page which disappeared after 1-2 seconds. Tried again Sunday morning and wasted another 5 credits, as each time I clicked on 1903, I was shown pages clearly dated 1908! Are these people having a laugh or what? Seems like daylight robbery to me! Perhaps I should try 1908 and maybe I'd get 1903?
notrom :: 12 Sep :: 2004 :: Comment / reply
Re:pauly's comment - "only scanned in documents, not transcribed"
Transcribing the documents is in many cases not a realistic option since the originals are hand-written and can be extremely hard to read. Any transcription would be highly error-prone. Although it makes the genealogical researcher's job harder, it's preferable to let people read the hand-writing for themselves.
peter :: 10 Jan :: 2004 :: Comment / reply
1837 online costs a lot if you are looking for a fairly common surname. You can spend such a lot of money without actually achieving anything! Why should we have to pay to know about our heritage?
Jo :: 7 Feb :: 2004 :: Comment / reply
You have to pay before you know if there's anything relevant to your family, don't you?
19 Jan :: 2004 :: Comment / reply
Another "story" about 1837 online in today's Metro, they referred to themselves as being like Ancestors Reunited, probably a coincidence that I referred to Ancestral Villages as that the other day...
pauly :: 5 Jan :: 2004 :: Comment / reply
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