This is a gentle restart of blog posts after a relaxing break, cruising in the Mediterranean. There’s a lot to catch up on while I was away.
The FreeBMD database was updated on 23 March 2026 to contain 295,418,598 unique entries, up from 295,226,698 the previous month, an increase of 371,900 entries.
The years with more than 10,000 additions are 1995-6 for births and marriages, 1994 and 1996-7 for deaths.