Good news for those who want to share their family history discoveries online. The GRO has permitted  sharing FreeBMD so that users can take screenshots of entries and share them online.

FreeBMD is one of a suite of free to use, forever, family history database – users are already free to share screenshots of FreeCEN (nineteenth-century censuses) and FreeREG (registers of baptism, marriage and burial from the Church of England and other bodies).

Pat Reynolds, Executive Director of Free UK Genealogy said about sharing FreeBMD data: “Personally, I love being able to share family history discoveries with my family on social media – I’m delighted I can now do this for the civil registration data we hold on FreeBMD”.

Free UK Genealogy is a registered charity,  where thousands of volunteers – transcribers, developers and others –  make historic documents freely accessible to all on its websites www.freebmd.org.uk , www.freecen.org.uk , and www.freereg.org.uk .