"Access the Birth, Marriage and Death Index for nothing"

[Paul E]

Woo-hoo!  Just had a nose at the Ancestry material and its great to have free access to it!  I wasted so much dosh on 1837 Online (including credits that expired too quickly!) that this has to be the best post-Christmas present ever.  Already found a few births that look useful.  I am sure it will do Ancestry the power of good as it will increase the traffic on their site (and hence potential sign ups).

cheers

Paul

[bitty_matriarch]

Have just sent in my cancelleation email 

Will be interesting to see what 1837Online come back with regarding use of their other databases + National Archivist - which I've used a lot in the past as well.


Regards,  Ann.

[acceber]

Thanks for letting us know about this, its great!

[piedstilt]

I noticed I was being bombarded with offers from 1837online recently.  However, as a subscriber to Ancestry.com I haven't heard a thing about total access! The only thing I have noticed recently is that they have just begun called their 1837-1983 index 'the FreeBMD index'.  Is this discrimination against .com users??

Ros

PS I'm amused to recall that this morning I read a great big grizzle about the amount of spam sent out by Ancestry. Obviously she/he and I don't get the right sort of spam!

Do we need to feel a bit sorry for an enterprising company that launched 1837online in the first place? These big US companies are VERY big and determined.

[mc8]

It is still worth using free bmd though

I've just checked a birth entry for Harriet Holmes Holmes Mar 1840 as I couldn't read the reference on the handwrtten original image on free BMD. Ancestry's version is a typewritten transcript which doesn't have Harriet at all

[piedstilt]

Re Ancestry.co.uk v Ancestry.com.

As a subscriber to the latter I have free access to the former (apart from free BMD stuff, she says bitterly).

Interesting to note, however, that the pop-up ads are different. Ancestry.co.uk tells me that the 1881 census is provided in conjunction with the National Archives. Ancestry.com doesn't breathe a word of this - and surely both owe total thanks to the Mormon Church?

Ros  

[GeoffP]

Like many others I recently took up the 1/2 price offer of 1837 online and am now stuck with a lot of units.
I have never received an e-mail from Ancestry.co.uk advising that the BMR records are available. Why do they complicate our already complicated lives. But long term it is good news.
                      Geoff
                                                        

[Wendi]

Ancestry do have the actual images, not just transcriptions.
meles

meles

How do you get to them

Wendi

[Tati]

Main page => England and Wales BMD index 1837-1983

Tanja