03 August 2020

FreeBMD Second July Update

The FreeBMD Database was updated on Friday 31 July 2020 to contain 276,053,272 unique records (275,618,339 at previous update).

Years with major additions, greater than 5,000 records are: for births 1982, 1985-89; for marriages 1969, 1986-89; for deaths 1980, 1984-86, 1988.

www.freebmd.org.uk/

2 comments:

Nancy in Kingston said...

John, I've lost a little of my confidence in FreeBMD due to a recent experience. When I wanted to find a death of Mary Willows in 1838 in Lissington, Lincolnshire - having found the exact date from a newspaper entry in the Stamford Mercury from the newspaper archive at FindMyPast -- the only one I can find on FreeBMD in all of Lincolnshire is for an infant dying age 0. Yet when I went to the General Record Office and searched, I easily found the correct registration of the 46-year-old woman I sought. So if FreeBMD has skipped one individual, how many more are also missing? I would now advise everyone to use the GRO search instead, at least if it's for a direct-line ancestor and you want to be really certain.

JDR said...

It's always a good practice to check all available sources, especially when it comes to transcriptions. None are perfect.