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About BMDshare.
The purpose of this site is to build an accurate database of information from UK Birth, Marriage
and Death Certificates, by sharing the information we have. BMDshare was born on 1st August 2006 and
during the early stages will be more about how much we can put in rather than how much we get out.
In time, with support this will obviously change and hopefully the site will become a useful resource.
Please remember as you visit the site, just how young it is and what we can achieve.
How BMDshare came to exist.
I have only been researching for two years but I love this subject and the people I have been
in contact with are so helpful. Instantly I wanted to give something back and help others
as I had received so much help myself. I contacted FreeCen to offer my services as a volunteer
transcriber. I was a complete failure! I spent hours transcribing only to have my work returned
and my many errors pointed out to me! I was so disappointed but had to admit I was useless.
If I was being honest it was my husband who had deciphered all the handwriting and me who had
introduced all the spelling mistakes!
I continued with my research and was amazed to discover that you couldn't access BMD Certificates online.
I was even more surprised to discover that you couldn't view them at Records / Registers Offices either.
As I don't live in the area of my research the Parish Registers weren't that useful for me.
This is when I realised that there was something I could do, to give something back to everyone in genealogy
with this website. To create a site where the information is both available and affordable, so please enter
your certificates, even if you only have one! It's taken a lot of time and money so I hope together we can make
it a very useful, inexpensive resource.
Best Wishes
Maria Dolman
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