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Coverage Charts - Marriages

FreeBMD is an ongoing project, the aim of which is to transcribe the Civil Registration index of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales, and as such the whole index has not yet been transcribed. To see graphs of the percentage completion for a particular quarter click on one of the following links:

1837 - 1849
1850 - 1869
1870 - 1889
1890 - 1909
1910 - 1929

Records transcribed since the previous update are shown in a lighter colour. Please note that the percentage completions are based on estimates and, in particular, a value of 100% does not guarantee that all entries have been transcribed. See below for further information on this.

Information about other events is available here:

Births
Deaths

A count (rather than a percentage completion graph) of the number of records transcribed for each event and year is available here.

The FreeBMD Database was last updated on Mon 28 Apr 2008 and currently contains 148,760,934 distinct records (191,852,382 total records).

Percentage of Marriages held in FreeBMD by year (1837 - 1849)

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Percentage of Marriages held in FreeBMD by year (1850 - 1869)

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Percentage of Marriages held in FreeBMD by year (1870 - 1889)

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Percentage of Marriages held in FreeBMD by year (1890 - 1909)

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Percentage of Marriages held in FreeBMD by year (1910 - 1929)

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How the percentages are calculated

The percentage coverage given by the above graphs is only an estimate for the following reason:

The total number of entries in a year is based on GRO figures which may not be accurate.
Where entries have been transcribed twice (for validation) we make an estimate of whether two entries that are different should be counted once or twice.

In view of this the percentages can be up to 3% out, for example a percentage of 60% could in reality be anything between 57% and 63%. However, most of the time the percentages are within 2%.

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