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Penny

Penny Report 26 Dec 2003 04:16

Just checked and the board shows it was updated today December 25, 2003 Penny

Twinkle

Twinkle Report 26 Dec 2003 15:24

An update on Christmas Day? Wow, someone's eager!

Chris

Chris Report 26 Dec 2003 21:09

Penny Were does it say it was updated on Dec 25? iv just been on and it says last update was 29 Nov!!!!! Christine

Shelli4

Shelli4 Report 26 Dec 2003 22:13

Christine on the home page under search information etc, it says the following......... The FreeBMD Database was last updated on Thu 25 Dec 2003 and currently contains 71,735,384 unique records (81,818,137 total records). On Thu 25 Dec 2003 FreeBMD users did 32,685 searches over 32 thousand searches on christmas day!!!!!!!

Penny

Penny Report 27 Dec 2003 00:03

Thanks Shelli for answering for me. I had only checked briefly on Christmas Day and thought I would post it. When I just checked back - thought I had been a little too eager (or too much food and brain was numb) but glad to see they did indeed update the information.

Linda from Murton

Linda from Murton Report 27 Dec 2003 15:55

Christine, if you have Free BMD in your favourites and go into it that way, try "refreshing" your page next time you are there. You will probabl find the new information displayed.

Chris

Chris Report 27 Dec 2003 17:26

Thanks Shellie and Linda FOUND IT......was looking at the wrong one Christine

Diane

Diane Report 27 Dec 2003 18:48

It is possible to create a data sheet from free BMD. If you have a very common name then it will be necessary to choose either Births,Mges,Deaths singly and if that is too large, reduce the time limit to, say, 10 years. You get around 3,000 entries at a time, I find it quicker to just copy and paste into Excel or similar. Gives you an idea of what years,quarters are covered for your name interest. Just type in the surname plus other info as above. Don't forget the variants in spellings as these need to be searched separately Diane