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[Christine in Herts]

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[Christine in Herts]

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[Christine in Herts]

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[TrevorFranklin]

Thanks for the 'heads up' Christine

[Christine in Herts]

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[Christine in Herts]

I thought it must be imminent: I've had some "thanks for your correction" notices recently.

Christine

[Kit]

That's just cheating Kate. lol

[KiteRunner]

They have coverage charts on their site showing what percentage of records have been transcribed for each year.

[Kit]

Not worried Kate. Just saying there is a lot of date coverage. I can't remember the name I was really searching ages ago when I discovered they had transcribed beyond 1920. I picked Smith as it is a common name.

[KiteRunner]

Those will be ones contributed by someone doing a one-name study, Kit, presumably just within a certain area, but don't worry, they do have to be taken from the GRO indexes.

[Kit]

A quick search gave me Smiths upto 1983!

[Kit]

I can't remember the date but I'm sure I found a couple of records well past the 1930's.

[Tilly Mint]

Thankyou Kate, i'm off to have a look !

[KiteRunner]

The FreeBMD Database was last updated on Sun 14 Sep 2008 and currently contains 155,358,184 distinct records (200,070,401 total records).

Fantastic!

[Granny Lynne]

Christine
Thanks for this, I have now found births and some marriages for a whole family who were born after 1901.

[Mary from Italy]

As I said, 1909-1929 isn't complete yet. If you look at the coverage charts I linked to above, you can see how far they've got.

[kylejustin]

they're not all in 1929. i look up the marriage of my great grandparents in 1920, and they havn't got it. but my aunt and grandpa's births are registered

[Little Nell]

Off to play now!

[Mary from Italy]

If you look at the actual coverage charts, they haven't got any further than about 1929, except for the occasional record, and 1909-1929 isn't 100% complete yet.

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[Christine in Herts]

I hadn't looked at the progress charts, I have to admit. That's really impressive that they're working on such recent records.

Christine