The FreeBMD Database was last updated on Thu 12 Oct 2006 and currently contains 123,625,788 distinct records (158,761,747 total records).
FreeBMD are transcribing the Civil Registration index of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales, and are making the transcriptions freely available on their website.
FreeBMD can be found at: http://freebmd.rootsweb.com
Source: FreeBMD (http://freebmd.rootsweb.com, Oct 2006)