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Issue 10 > The Last Word > A Busy Year Ahead
Nick Barratt highlights some of the key things to watch out for in the genealogical world this coming year.
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Dear Nick,
As Michael Foster pointed out in his two volumes of "Comedy of Errors", the GRO indexes are a mess !
At the last GRO user group meeting that I attended as Southport, we found out that we are approaching the 100th anniversary of the question "Why are the GRO indexes in such as mess?"
The only answer to this is to start again. Throw away the current data set and start from the original data source.
Ah, a huge task you might say...
However, it's already underway !
There are 32 web sites giving access to the original indexes held by the local register offices. Most not only pair the marriages fully, but also give the marriage venue.
Why waste time with prolonging the agony of the GRO indexes ?
The UKBMD web site was set up to provide links to all the BMD web sites, local and GRO, and has since expanded to include links to thousands of other web sites.
The UKBMD project recently opened its tenth local BMD web site, www.CumbriaBMD.org.uk as with all of these web sites, it's free to use and run by volunteers.
I would strongly suggest that other follow the lead set by Cheshire when they opened the Cheshire BMD web site in 2000.
Local BMD indexes are the better option.
UKBMD will be on stand 101 at the WDYTYA show. See you there perhaps ?
http://www.UKBMD.org.uk/