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Subject: Re: [DUR-NBL] freeBMD - query?
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 17:36:12 EDT
In a message dated 03/08/2003 22:23:42 GMT Daylight Time,
writes:
> For my great-grandparents' wedding in Sunderland in 1880, the bride appears
> in FreeBMD but there's no reference to the groom on that page, or anywhere
> else - but the marriage given for her is definitely the correct one for
> them.
>
> Perhaps in the sentence "If the bride is not mentioned on the same page then
> the reference for the bridegroom which you have is definitely not the
> correct one", replace "definitely" with "probably"?
>
Mike:
No, it should be "definitely". I was referring to the GRO records,
not to FreeBMD. FreeBMD is incomplete and so there are bound to be anomalies
where, for instance, some of the marriages on a particular page have been
included in their index and some have not. I prefer to stick to the "official" GRO
indexes, which, whatever their other faults, are at least as complete as they
can be, rather than use FreeBMD which, whatever its other plus-points, will
always be a transcript, one level further removed from the primary source.
Best wishes,
Geoff Nicholson
57 Manor Park, Concord, WASHINGTON, Tyne & Wear NE37 2BU (0191 417 9546)
Professional Genealogist - Northumberland and Co Durham.
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