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From: "jackycooper.clav78" <>
Subject: re: ACCESS TO PARISH REGISTERS [was Help Please.!! (Hatfield Broad Oak)]
Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 23:36:40 +0100


sorry some other addresses crept into that posting - please delete! here is
what I meant to send:
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>>A lot of 19th century registers are still held by the parish, for instance
>>post-1866 baptisms in my parish. The parish has the right to charge for
>>looking things up - there is a scale of fees usually posted up in the
>>church porch and it includes look-ups in the registers. It may be that
>>some parishes prefer not to publicise this, for fear of being overwhelmed
>>by family historians! This information is available from the civil
>>registers too - the indexes are free and easy to consult - various record
>>offices have them on microfiche (eg Hertford record office, Cambridge
>>Mormons local history centre, Northallerton library are 3 where I have
>>seen them), so you don't necessarily have to visit the Family History
>>Centre in London. It's only when you want a copy of the certificate that
>>the charge comes in, as you all know - about L8 a time now?
>> A further issue is Nonconformist registers - the Essex Record Office does
>> not have a policy of microfilming these, although they do have some that
>> have already been filmed. I think the Essex Society for Family History is
>> currently indexing them. The ESFH has its own room in the ERO where you
>> can get advice.
>> Happy is the family historian whose ancestors come from Cambridgeshire -
>> the CRO is very short of space (so essential to book), but does have
>> shelves groaning with transcriptions of registers covering as far as I
>> could see every parish, with names arranged alphabetically, so no need to
>> trawl through microfilms if you go there. I wonder who transcribed it
>> all?
>>
>> I regularly visit Hertford record office and the staff there are the most
>> helpful imaginable,totally geared up to the needs of family historians -
>> and there is lots of space, no need to book - and the civil register on
>> film - and online access to various sites etc
>> (end of Jacky's potted guide to record offices... apols if you already
>> know all this)
>> Jacky
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