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Family History Beginners Board / Freebmd - the "count" option for marriages...
« on: Tuesday 03 October 23 10:46 BST (UK) »
I'm researching Swansea in the Second World War and have used Freebmd to count the number of births and deaths registered in the Swansea District during 1939-45. That seemed simple - I just entered the parameters "Swansea" and "Glamorgan" for each year's births or deaths and it produced a result.
I'm not so sure about marriage registrations. Obviously, each birth or death involves only one person but a marriage involves two persons.
So, if I count e.g. for marriages on Freebmd in Swansea during 1942, does the number returned count the records of Miss Black and Mr White getting hitched as one marriage or two? I can search Freebmd for their marriage by either of their names so am I double counting when using the count function?
The average number of weddings in the Swansea district between 1935-38 (from Freebmd) was 2,880 per year (if I've got my sums right) on a population of about 166,000. So just under 6,000 out of 166,000 getting married which seems a bit high to me once you discount the too young etc.
I can't find a Freebmd email address to ask them.
Does anyone have any ideas, please? I'm assuming there aren't any GRO records at this level of detail online? And I don't suppose my local registration office would help?
Cheers!
Bernard
I'm not so sure about marriage registrations. Obviously, each birth or death involves only one person but a marriage involves two persons.
So, if I count e.g. for marriages on Freebmd in Swansea during 1942, does the number returned count the records of Miss Black and Mr White getting hitched as one marriage or two? I can search Freebmd for their marriage by either of their names so am I double counting when using the count function?
The average number of weddings in the Swansea district between 1935-38 (from Freebmd) was 2,880 per year (if I've got my sums right) on a population of about 166,000. So just under 6,000 out of 166,000 getting married which seems a bit high to me once you discount the too young etc.
I can't find a Freebmd email address to ask them.
Does anyone have any ideas, please? I'm assuming there aren't any GRO records at this level of detail online? And I don't suppose my local registration office would help?
Cheers!
Bernard