What to do with collection of FH certs?

[rosie99]

I am slowly adding mine to freebmd as most of them will no doubt end up in the bin when I am 'gone'.  At least on there it has a wide 'free' audience. 

[Bee]

I am slowly adding mine to freebmd as most of them will no doubt end up in the bin when I am 'gone'.  At least on there it has a wide 'free' audience.

Maybe I'm being a bit slow this morning, but how do you add them to freebmd?

[Girl Guide]

When you go on to freebmd - https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl - you enter the name of the person you have, click on Find and you get taken to the details, i.e. Birth, quarter, year, the name and then the GRO reference details.

Click on the red info box. You get taken to another page and you will see the you may add a postem.  Note that you only  have 250 characters to get all the information in.

Explanation for Postem

A Postem is a note left by someone about this record - the content of the postem is determined by the person who left it. FreeBMD can offer no assurance about the postem and will not enter into correspondence about it. You can leave a Postem by clicking on Add a postem. Further information about Postems is available here.

Hopefully you can follow what I have said!

[rosie99]

You can see an example that I have just seen by looking at this death entry on freebmd and clicking on the 'envelope' alongside

Death
Dec qtr 1837 
CROOK    William       
Melksham    8   246    

[Bee]

Thanks, Rosie & Girl Guide, that all makes sense.

[Cas (stallc)]

I am slowly adding mine to freebmd as most of them will no doubt end up in the bin when I am 'gone'.  At least on there it has a wide 'free' audience. 

Just have to add, what an excellent idea Rosie, I would never have thought of that. I am going to do the same as a slow project. Likewise family would have no interest in them. 

I like the thought that it would be assisting others that are following same lines in the future and my cost and research info would not be wasted.  FreeBMD is an excellent resource that all can access, great idea.

Cas

[tillypeg]

https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/ShowPostems.pl

If you want to search for Postems for particular surnames etc, use the above link.

I always add a Postem when I obtain a copy cert, as the others have said, after all no one wants all the paper stuff when we are gone 

[pandacub]

I think it's a great idea to add Postems at FreeBMD.  I've been slowly adding a few a day ever since I read about it.
What I've also done, which a researcher friend suggested, is to see if there is a One Name Study for any of the surnames on the certs.  I found quite a few and offered copy certs.  They were all very grateful to have them.