bdm question

[Carrie Meerten]

does anyone know if there is a site that you can enter certificate details that have been purchased from the GRO office but are not on the freebmd site?

my grandfather -
his birth is listed on freebmd
his marriage is not listed on freebmd
his death is not listed on freebmd

[Pam Downes]

FreeBMD state on their opening page that the work is 'an ongoing project' to transcribe the whole of the GRO Index, and is not yet complete.
If you want to see granddad's marriage and death entries on the FreeBMD pages sooner rather than later, then you will have to volunteer as a transcriber, though I don't know how picky you can be about what pages you will or will not transcribe.
http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/
has all the information you need to knw about becoming a transcriber in the information, joing FreeBMD, and transcribers' page boxes.

Pam Downes

[Geoffers]

my grandfather -
his birth is listed on freebmd
his marriage is not listed on freebmd
his death is not listed on freebmd
You can saerch for the marriage and death on 1837online.
But note - this is a pay per view website

Geoffers
Charlbury, Oxfordshire

[Linda]

If I understand you correctly, you already have the GRO reference details, (since you already purchased the certificates from GRO) and would like to submit them to FreeBMD - is that correct?

I don't know if the rules have changed, but a few years ago you could submit your GRO index transcriptions without becoming a volunteer. I did it lots of times. There was a contact to whom you could email the information (must be in the correct format), and he would enter it to the database. I just had a quick look on their website but cannot find the contact now - I'll have to dig a little deeper and get back to you.

Linda

[Carrie Meerten]

That would be great Linda
|cheers|

[Peggy]

Hi Linda & meerten,

I have a recollection of submitting the info on some certs a few years ago. But I don't think the events show up now. Perhaps it was decided that trying to "tuck in" submissions from people holding certs was too complicated. I think it would be great to have cert details on a searchable web page. If you knew which person was the other party to a marriage, or the names of parents of a baby, it would help to narrow down the search and decide which certs to order.

Peggy

[Mark]

I've submitted my own extractions of HATTAM from the GRO indexes in addition to the "standard" transcribing of allocated pages. Just use the appropriate file format and upload them. You do have to "volunteer" this way, but that doesn't mean you'll have to do any set minimum of transcribing. It does mean that your own transcriptions add to the existing database.

Obviously though, it's the index entry that needs to be used, even if it's "wrong" ... Thomas Tabor WEST is in the index as Thomas Tabov WEST ... such is life. Also there's a few HALLAM's in the index where the original indexer hasn't seen the very thin line crossing the t's. At least once the GRO indexer has hedged bets, and included the person under HALLAM and HATTAM.

Mark

[Peggy]

Going back to meerten's original post about the certs purchased, I've been doing a little math. Of my 8 great-grandparents only 1 was from England, and she left at age 8. I have (so far) 3 birth certs, 5 marriage certs, and 5 death certs. Researchers with all 8 gr-grands from England could have 8 or 16 times as many, depending upon ages. (And piggybanks.) It would be loverly to have all of the information on even a % of those certs freely available to all and searchable. It is great for people to put up for adoption the certs that they don't want, but there seems to be no organized scheme for sharing what is on the ones they do want.

Please don't tell me to set one up - - - I can just about tell HTML from BYOB. :)

Peggy

[Linda]

Hi meerten

I found the name and email address of the contact I had for FreeBMD submissions and have sent it through a private message. I would be interested to know if he can still be contacted and is still willing to submit your info. If not, it seems as though Mark has the answer, but another way, since you only have 2 submissions, would be to ask SKS who is already a volunteer to submit them for you.

Linda