Brightsolid changes its name to DC Thomson Family History

[kiterunner]

What a mouthful!

Also they have announced a new partnership with FamilySearch; information on here:
http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/2013/10/findmypast-and-familysearch-org-to-make-billions-of-records-available-to-search/

This is a list of the new collections they mention were launched on the site today (also already on FamilySearch) - you need to go on "Search all records" and then select the country you want. Californian marriages 1850-1945, Iowa marriages 1809-1992, Indiana marriages 1780-1992, Virginia marriages 1785-1940, Alabama marriages 1816-1957, Alabama deaths 1908-1974, Utah births 1892-1941, North Carolina deaths 1931-1994, Indiana births 1773-1933, California births 1812-1988, Australian births 1792-1981, Australian deaths 1816-1980, Australian marriages 1810-1980. It seems the transcriptions are free to view on FMP though I have not checked all these databases yet.

[Mary from Italy]

I'm astonished they have such recent Australian records, when they have such strict privacy legislation there. The official BMD site only has births over 100 years ago, for example.

[kiterunner]

Sorry, Mary, I copied and pasted the names of the databases from the blog post, but looking at FamilySearch, the full title of that Australian births database is Australia Births and Baptisms 1792-1981, and if you look for relatively recent dates, it comes up with people who were born more than 100 years ago but baptised as adults. It says in the info about the database on FamilySearch that "Due to privacy laws, recent records may not be displayed."

[kiterunner]

And the most recent marriage I can find on the FamilySearch copy of the Australian Marriages 1810-1980 database is 1935. But they may well have indexed more recent ones and have a block on displaying them, so maybe they will appear year by year on New Year's Day.

[Mary from Italy]

Well, I've just had a quick search, and unless I'm missing something, it looks as though all the recent records are GRO overseas records for events that took place in Australia, whihc is very misleading.

[Mary from Italy]

And the most recent marriage I can find on the FamilySearch copy of the Australian Marriages 1810-1980 database is 1935. But they may well have indexed more recent ones and have a block on displaying them, so maybe they will appear year by year on New Year's Day.

Yes, very likely. Of course, the official Aus sites in most states have free indexes online which are updated year to year, so I hope people aren't going to be spending FMP credits on them.

[kiterunner]

I've tried looking up an Australian record from the Births and Baptisms database on UK Findmypast, and it let me view the transcription for free, so I will update my first post! If they add images later, I bet you will need credits for those though.

[ElizabethHerts]

The reaction to this on the UK site under "comments" isn't very enthusiastic.

[Phoenix]

Well, it could have been Beano Family History.

(Wonders why it took so long to change the name)

[kiterunner]

The reaction to this on the UK site under "comments" isn't very enthusiastic.

A lot of the comments seem to be from people who don't understand that FamilySearch is not just the IGI, and people who think the announcement meant that Findmypast's parent company was taking over FamilySearch!

[Shona]

Well, it could have been Beano Family History

That would have been Dandy!