Re: GRO Marriage Index December Q 1925 - BEVERTON

http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/news.html - scroll down to 28th June 2004
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Allan Raymond

On Jul 4, 11:11 pm, "Astral Voyager" <nobody.h...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

I don't think that is a fair observation. I don't believe it was FreeBMD's
original intent to supply the images at all. There was likely not enough
space on the original servers to house them anyway. The images were later
made available to site users as a 'bonus'. The purpose of FreeBMD being that
of transcription of the index and not the index itself.

For those entries currently transcribed then FreeBMD is superior to
Ancestry. Rather than just finding (if you are lucky) a page that might
contain the entry of interest as Ancestry does - FreeBMD will display the
page that *does* contain the entry - by clicking in the spectacles icon next
to the retrieved entry transcription.

AV.
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