tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-434701420960162731.post5317689801957934461..comments2024-03-29T10:00:15.053+00:00Comments on The GENES Blog: English and Welsh civil registration indexes on FamilySearchChris Patonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05073425769475523109noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-434701420960162731.post-46810817827759884802014-01-10T18:59:47.807+00:002014-01-10T18:59:47.807+00:00Thanks Adrian, I'm doing a talk in a few weeks...Thanks Adrian, I'm doing a talk in a few weeks time on civil registration down under, so will feed that tip in, VERY useful to know. I see they have now renamed the collections to start at 1837!Chris Patonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05073425769475523109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-434701420960162731.post-34887091958010761482014-01-09T17:09:30.348+00:002014-01-09T17:09:30.348+00:00Alas - just been alerted to a major fail on this d...Alas - just been alerted to a major fail on this data. So far as I can see, many (i.e. probably all) the letters have been dropped from the volume numbers. So where FreeBMD has Volume 8b, the FS data just reads Volume 8. Given the district name, one can work out the correct volume - but why bother? Why not use FreeBMD?Adrian Brucenoreply@blogger.com