1 / 15

FreeBMD

FreeBMD. A cooperative Internet project to place the GRO Indexes on the Internet. Introduction. Who am I ? Graham Hart – Co founder of FreeBMD Email: graham@the-harts.co.uk http://www.freebmd.org.uk. Topics of Discussion. What is FreeBMD? Demonstration of the site

anthony-sullivan
Download Presentation

FreeBMD

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. FreeBMD A cooperative Internet project to place the GRO Indexes on the Internet.

  2. Introduction • Who am I ? • Graham Hart – Co founder of FreeBMD • Email: graham@the-harts.co.uk • http://www.freebmd.org.uk

  3. Topics of Discussion • What is FreeBMD? • Demonstration of the site • Commonly asked questions • The Future • Questions

  4. What is FreeBMD? “The FreeBMD Project's objective is to provide free Internet access to theCivil Registration index information for England and Wales.” FreeBMD is a work in progress • 51,817,172 unique records and counting

  5. Why start FreeBMD? • Lots of transcribers on Internet • Of interest to all UK genealogists

  6. Why the GRO Indexes with all their known faults? • They are the best we have • National coverage • Source records available worldwide

  7. Why can’t I get through ? • Server too busy • Try narrowing the search • Check the busy times

  8. Demo of FreeBMD

  9. How is it FreeBMD organised ? • Syndicates of transcribers • Scans

  10. Quality Control • Type what you see • Double keying • Always check back to the source

  11. Types of errors • Mistranscription of GRO Indexes • Errors in the actual indexes • District numbers not matching • Wrong page numbers

  12. How can it be free? • Sponsorship • Ancestry • AL Digital Hosting • Volunteers’ Time

  13. Future Functionality • Enhancements of the search facility • Linking results to images • Accepting non index changes • Corrections driven by Double Keying

  14. Future Direction • Charity • Government White Paper • Other BMD sites

  15. Questions

More Related