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From: "sylvia" <>
Subject: Re: [Ess] APART from SEAX good news
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 11:35:29 -0700
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However...you should never, ever rely solely on online records. Always look
at the original. On ancestry there is a long, long line of people hooked up
to one family based on IGI records. When I looked at the original records
(which suddenly appeared on ancestry recently) it turned out that the one
couple having children was not just "one" couple, it was several couples
with the same names having children baptized in the same church during the
same time frame. In my own Essex line I have a man listed on the burial
page when it is obviously a baptism (should have been put on the opposite
page)...which no online index would have picked up correctly. Also, lots of
times there are additional details in the registers, even notes, and not
always nice ones! I had one line in Derbyshire where the vicar did his own
census a couple of times pre 1841...it was wonderful! My only criticism of
the ERO is that they started in the 1500's as opposed to going c1837 (or
even c1800) backwards. If I knew who was who in 1500, I could turn out the
light and go to bed.... Sylvia formerly Collier Row now in a very wet
Seattle
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From: "Steve" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2011 9:18 AM
Subject: Re: [Ess] APART from SEAX good news
> And as a 3rd option http://www.freereg.org.uk/ who certainly do have some
> registers not yet on SEAX
>
> Cheers
> Steve
>
> On 09/04/2011 23:30, geejay wrote:
>> To all those complaining about the availability of registers on SEAX,..
>> FREE... [after a lot of hard work.].
>>
>> Have you ever thought of looking on the LDS [Familysearch.org] Library
>> catalogue to see if they have the ones you want? [order and view at your
>> local LDS FHC] . They have a few non-conformist registers on film.
>>
>> Of course it will cost you a small amount to order the films, but then
>> you might be able to find what you want, copy it, and maybe do some
>> indexing or transcribing while you have the film. In turn helping some
>> one else.
>> Yours in Genealogy,
>> Jan,
>> in sunny QLD, Australia
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