Just curios; I've gained much from "FREE BMD" and wonder if there is any transcribing taking place for the Northumberland, Tyne & Wear and Durham Counties for "FREE BMD"? I've been researching for my beloved in St. Agnes, Cornwall and have been very pleasantly amazed at the volume of information freely available by way of Birth, Baptisms, Marriage & Deaths and also Census and Church Records on "FREE BMD" and it seems almost complete? It would seem to me that the above mentioned Counties are not as well covered by "FREE BMD"? I've visited the Transcribing area on "FREE BMD", but it gives no indication of what areas are currently being transcribed? Kindest Regards; Robert KEMSLEY Australia

Hi Robert It seems there is some confusion between freebmd and freereg Freebmd deals with the transcription of the GRO only (the indexes of births, marriages and deaths under civil registration, 1837 on) Freereg deals with transcriptions of Parish Registers (baptisms, marriages and burials) Cornwall is particularly well blessed with the amount of information available For Northumberland coverage see :- http://www.freereg.org.uk/parishes/nbl.htm And Durham here :- http://www.freereg.org.uk/parishes/dur.htm However there may be transcriptions available that do not appear on Freereg For starters try a search on google for the place name of interest and the word Genuki Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) PS , there is Freecen also for the transcribing of the census > Just curios; > > I've gained much from "FREE BMD" and wonder if there is any > transcribing > taking place for the Northumberland, Tyne & Wear and Durham Counties for > "FREE BMD"? > > I've been researching for my beloved in St. Agnes, Cornwall and have > been very pleasantly amazed at the volume of information freely available > by > way of Birth, Baptisms, Marriage & Deaths and also Census and Church > Records > on "FREE BMD" and it seems almost complete?

Hi Nivard, I have been aware for some time about Freereg, but I've never worked out how you can access their information, to see the actual baptisms, marriages and burials. Perhaps its a case that I am overlooking something? Jan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nivard Ovington" <ovington1@sky.com> To: <northumbria@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 9:33 AM Subject: Re: [NMB] Free BMD Transcribing? > > Freereg deals with transcriptions of Parish Registers > (baptisms, marriages and burials) > And Durham here :- > http://www.freereg.org.uk/parishes/dur.htm > >>

KEMSLEY, Robert N. G. wrote: > I've gained much from "FREE BMD" and wonder if there is any transcribing > taking place for the Northumberland, Tyne & Wear and Durham Counties for > "FREE BMD"? Robert As FreeBMD is based on the GRO indexes which are national in scope, it is absolutely impossible for FreeBMD to transcribe by region and, of course, it is absolutely impossible for one region to be "not as well covered" as others. Certain names ranges might be better covered than others and certain quarters might be better covered than others - but all areas of the country are equally well served. If you have queries about the operation of FreeBMD then I suggest you join one of the FreeBMD Mailing Lists and ask there. See: http://www.freebmd.org.uk/lists.html Brian -- Brian Pears (Gateshead, UK) http://www.bpears.org.uk/ Joint List Admin NORTHUMBRIA Genealogy Mailing List GENUKI Northumberland Maintainer