Search 400 Million Marriage Records … for FREE!!
In honor of Valentine’s Day, MyHeritage are giving everyone FREE ACCESS to over 400 million marriage records from now through until Sunday, 17 February 2019.
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Tag: BDM records
English and Welsh BDM Certificate Price Rises
Certificates are an important part of research, but they’re not cheap. Particularly those in...
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Proposed Changes to Australian Marriage Certificates will Affect Family Historians
The following information has been forwarded to me by a marriage celebrant who is very concerned...
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Download English and Welsh Birth and Death Certificates
England’s General Register Office (GRO) is the place that “maintains the national...
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Help! My Digger Disks Won’t Work on my New Computer – AGAIN!
So you have the Australian BDM Digger disks from years ago, and have recently bought a new computer and they won’t work on it … So what can you do?
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Historical Australian Birth, Death and Marriage Records
Birth, death and marriage records (best known as BDM records or certificates) are without a doubt an important part of a family historians research. You can glean so much from just one certificate. Now I’ve created a list of the Australian registrars of births, marriages and deaths.
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Download English and Welsh BDM Records … Maybe?
What do you think about the possibility of being able to download historical English and Welsh certificates? Sounds good right? Well a campaign has been launched to enable greater public access to historic UK birth, marriage and death records, and your help is needed.
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Help! My Digger Disks Won’t Work on My New Computer!!
“Arrgh help! My Digger disks won’t work on my new computer.” This is something I’ve heard many, many times over the past few years. With Windows 7 the software changed, but the Digger disks were never updated to cope with this, or with Windows 8. While there have been some work-arounds, seriously, for most of them you’d need to be an IT technical engineer to get it up and running. At least until now …
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FamilySearch Adds More Than 145 Million New Records
FamilySearch continue to add to their vast collection of images and indexed records. And for January’s update they have added a whopping 145 million new records online. Of these 145 million records, there’s about 140 million new UK BDM records they’ve added! So it’s worth checking out.
Read MoreOrder Your Queensland BDM Certificates Online
More good news for Aussie genealogists – as a sign of another organisation moving with the times, the Queensland Registrar now gives you the option of buying a copy of the printed certificate which gets mailed out to you OR you can order a digital copy which you can then download instantly.
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Tasmania Birth, Death & Marriage Records 1803-1933 Now Online
I discovered “genealogy gold” when I found out that FamilySearch have in conjuction with the Archives Office of Tasmania have just put the images of Tasmanian Births, Deaths and Marriages online. These cover the period 1803-1933, and are there for all to view for FREE!
Read MoreRun Your Digger Disks on Windows 7 64-bit
It has been a known fact that sadly the Australian ‘Digger’ disks will not work on Vista 64-bit, and Windows 7 64-bit computers, which comes as a rude shock to those who have just upgraded their computer, and paid hundreds of dollars for these CDs to find out. Well, we finally have some good news. Here’s how to get them working …
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