Bath Somerset England

Bath Births Marriages & Deaths

BathBMD has completed transcribing and publishing ALL the indexes to registers held in Bath Register Office.

Let’s summarise what was involved.

86 volunteers have been involved doing.....
16,000 hours of volunteer work over....
50 months duration and working on.....
3,026 Registers, to produce....
1,165,000 records (names).

In that time we have also produced...

A web site with 233,000 hits so far and that has done....
278,000 data searches so far and ....

12 Newsletters explaining progress plus ....

30 printed and bound index books (replacing 2,500 hand written books!) and ....

A Petition on 10 Downing Street with 4,221 signatures and .....

Four Bath Post Office Directories scanned and published consisting of 2,976 pages

Not bad eh? From the very start, BathBMD did not reckon to blindly mimic other sites,
but to build on their quality base. That’s one reason why we chose the Cheshire software
as a basis for the BathBMD site.

As well as all the above statistics, all births have a Mother’s Maiden Name (where it is included in the
register),
all deaths have an age at death, and all marriages are name pairs – not single names of people
that married.
The age at death fact was not as simple as it sounds. Records from 1974 onwards did not
quote Age at Death, but Date of Birth instead.

83,000 records had to have two dates subtracted from
one another to create the age at death. That in itself was quite a task!


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