Re: FreeBMD & Indexes


"Roy Stockdill" <roy.stockdill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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From: "Jill Crawford" <martlets@xxxxxxxxxxx>

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?>

Well spotted. But it raises the question of why FreeBMD seemingly have
a different set of images from the others?

Doesn't it just!

I couldn't resist checking up on this one, as I'm as curious as you to learn
where the image came from...

So, here goes.

This scan comes from a batch that FreeBMD had scanned commercially, from
either 16 or 35 mm microfilm supplied by the GRO. It is not an extra image
that was created by photographing a page at the FRC, so the answer would
appear to be that the image is missing from the fiche version, and from one
of the filmed versions (I would have to check which version we used).
Clearly Ancestry and Findmypast used the other film.

I will continue to investigate.


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