Project Team

Trustees and Executive

Coordinators, etc.

Syndicate Co-ordinator: Allan Raymond

Allan acts as team leader for the Syndicate Co-ordinator community. Allan was a Quality and Project Manager in a large company and considered the lure of early retirement too tempting an offer to pass over. Not one to miss an opportunity, he thought rightly or wrongly that some of his dormant skills could be put to good use in helping the FreeBMD Project. He is based in Pontypridd, UK and can be contacted at
Allan is also the Co-ordinator for Volunteers in which role he can be contacted at .

List Administrator: Jeff Coleman

Administrator of the FreeBMD mailing lists. Based in Swansea,UK. Jeff can be contacted here :

District Alias Team Co-ordinator: Martin Cope

Coordinates a team who create aliases for the alternative (mis)spellings of the standard districts.
The other members of the district aliasing team are: Linda Bailey and Anne Sutherland.
The District Aliasing Team can be contacted at

Corrections Co-ordinator: TBA

Records and reviews submitted corrections, before forwarding validated corrections/changes to transcribers for action. The email address for the corrections co-ordinator is

Web Editor: Michael Manning

Updates Web pages Design and updates the FreeBMD database.

Web Proof Reader: Vacancy

To be appointed

Quality Assurance Co-ordinator: Barrie Archer

Provides a focus for assuring the quality of the service delivered by FreeBMD to users searching for information. Can be contacted at this email address: .

Transcription Software Developers

SpeedBMD Designer: Peter Cox

Programmer and designer of the SpeedBMD software. Peter is based in NZ and can be contacted here.

WinBMD Designer: Ian Brooke

Programmer and designer of the WinBMD software. Ian also runs a syndicate and writes software for the District Aliasing Team. Ian was an IT specialist here in the UK before taking early retirement and moving to Canada. Ian can be contacted here.

MacBMD Designer: Ben Hines

Programmer and designer of the MAC BMD software. Ben can be contacted here.

BMDVerify Designer: David Lang

Programmer and designer of BMDVerify software. David can be contacted here

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