BMD Research Aids - Great Idea

[joboy]

I saw this on another list and seems a good idea

This is a plea to everyone who has received a BMD certificate for
England and Wales.
Please 1. Go to FreeBMD and find the index to your certificate.
2. Click 'Info' and send a Postem.  There is enough space given on
the Postem form to enter all the relevant details from the  certificate -
places, parent names, spouse names etc.
If most users  did this, it would contribute towards making the
acquisition of a certificate less of an expensive lottery than the indexing
system makes it now.  Imagine looking up the FreeBMD index and being
able to eliminate certificates that the Postem shows are not yours
You can also include a contact email address.
Joe

[familytreesearch]

Excellent idea!

[Deb D]

Crikey ... this'd save us heaps, if we could do it for Aussie certificates as well?

 

[andycand]

Hi

Have you run this idea past FreeBMD? I seem to recall reading about this idea some time ago and if it took off it would create problems as their servers wouldn't be able to cope. I presume that the whilst an individual post-em would allow for the info it would soon eat into the total capacity and would require additional space at some expence to FreeBMD. Basically the total space set up for post-ems would soon fill.

Andy

[Deb D]

Thanks, Andy ... yes, I can see their problem.  Might see if I can get onto them, and ask what the current situation is.

Cheers 

[joboy]

Hi

Have you run this idea past FreeBMD? I seem to recall reading about this idea some time ago and if it took off it would create problems as their servers wouldn't be able to cope. I presume that the whilst an individual post-em would allow for the info it would soon eat into the total capacity and would require additional space at some expence to FreeBMD. Basically the total space set up for post-ems would soon fill.

Andy

You do have a point Andy.
However postem's are encouraged by Free BMD as shown in this link;
http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/postems-help.html
so I guess that they would have catered for any problems.
Joe

[MarieC]

Sounds an excellent idea!  As long as it doesn't cause problems for freebmd's servers.  I might look up all my certs (including the wrong ones!  ) and do this.  I'd seen postems mentioned but hadn't investigated what exactly they were - duh!

MarieC