FreeBMD & Indexes

For a long time I've known FreeBMD is good but it's much better than that:

Try looking for the marriage of Ambrose CHALK in Fordingbridge in the June quarter of 1849 -

Not in the GRO index images on Ancestry.com
Not in the index images at findmypast.com
Not in the GRO index fiche at our local FHC
But there in FreeBMD !

There is a double page spread missing containing the names between Harriet Chadwick and Hannah Chamberlain (confirmed in Mike Foster's book) but FreeBMD has both the images and the transcriptions.
Brilliant, Dave Mayall & Co.! Dare we hope that some of the other gaps identified by Mike Foster are also covered?

Jill Crawford
Yungaburra, QLD, Australia



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