Type of site | Vital records transcription, search and viewing |
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Founded | 1998 |
Area served | England and Wales |
Owner | Free UK Genealogy CIO |
Founder(s) | Ben Laurie, Graham Hart and Camilla Von Massenbach |
URL | freebmd.org.uk |
Advertising | Yes |
Commercial | No |
Registration | Viewing: No Transcribing: Yes |
Native client(s) on | Windows (WinBMD, BMDVerify), Mac (MacBMD-X), Linux (linBMD), DOS SpeedBMD (defunct)[1] |
Written in | Perl, MySQL[2] |
OCLC number | 1150886645 |
FreeBMD is a website which coordinates and provides free transcriptions of the indexes to births, marriages and deaths (BMD) held by the General Register Office for England and Wales (GRO). It also provides a free search function and online access to images of the pages of the BMD indexes. The website was founded in 1998. FreeBMD was registered as a UK charity in 2003, with the organisation changing its name to Free UK Genealogy in 2014 to reflect the broadening of its scope.