Genealogy Chat

Hi Alsn
i meant that GR is a con as they are making you pay for records you can get for free which are excellent ie Familysearch and Online Parish clerkd
Norma

I dont think it's a con Norma, LanOPC is free and perhaps shows all of the Parish Record.

Hi All
i have found records which I had accessed on Family Search so I suspect that is where they are getting them from-such a con
Norma

Because Genes and Findmypast are sister companies,it is probable that the records are the same.
FMP coverage is here:-

http://www.findmypast.co.uk/content/search-menu/life-events-bmds

Alan,

The parish of North Meols (Southport as it now is) is my particular interest.

Baptisms only go up to 1835, unfortunately, although there are marriages to 1921 (but with a gap from 1837 - 1907) and burials to 1911.

It's possible that some Parish Records havent been transcribed yet. I am currently transcribing St Judes Marriages, Liverpool 1865.

i just searched the records looking for my ancestors and there is one there for 1946 in Sydney, New South Wales.

I thought they were only for the UK but maybe not. Don't think it's worth paying to view it though.

The ancestors I'm looking for came from around Gloucestershire but nothing comes up searching for them by the county.

and parish records can be searched for free on the beta.familysearch site


all supposedly extracted from the parish registers, no submitted records


www.familysearch.org/#form=advanced-records



I did a quick search on here ................. found nothing, when I do know they are on the site above!




sylvia

I also have had no luck - couldn't understand why nothing was coming up especially with people who I know, most of what I was looking for was Lancashire - I am only a Gold Member and it is expensive - I will not be subscribing for this if it is an extra it would have been nice to have seen these records - maybe GR could do this free for a month and then people could subscribe if they really needed to

Whichever parishes / churches may be available, there is certainly more than one Brooks person during the years that I mentioned; it is not an unusual surname ;-)

Thank you all for your replies on this subject, as I thought, not worth paying extra for!

The only record that came up for me was a burial in 1972. However the same person was married and baptised at the same church at the same church but no records could be found. Good job I haven't paid extra for this as I would be very cross. Could not find anyone else even though 8 people all had a connection to the same parish/church

I have just seen this
http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/search.page/index/parishbaptism
in which there is a drop down thing to see which counties are allegedly available.
However, trying Brooks 1890 plus or minus 10 years London produced no results which :-S me ;-)
And only one between 1840 and 1910. :-S ;-)

I have tested it out with relatives names and dates that I have seen at the records office in both Staffordshire and Shropshire and on here it just says 'sorry no match' so I am not inclined to add it to my subscription at the moment. Could it be that they are still adding information?

Hi, what really annoys me is that yesterday I got an e-mail inviting me to look at their NEW parish records but like you have all said they omitted to tell me what areas they cover. No luck so far with Lancs so I am guessing they have not covered that are yet.
The advertise it as being wonderful and then you feel so let down. What are they playing at, it cannot be beyond the wit of man to tell us what it covers.
OK, rant over!! :-)

Alan, true, but the Lancs OLPC I'm interested in only goes up to about 1835. I've found records on GR from the early 1900's. As said, the problem is we don't know what the coverage is

On-line Parish Clerks has Parish Records for the Counties of, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Essex, Lancs, Somerset, Sussex, Warks and Wilts and they are all free.

There are records there to be found. I found baptisms for all my uncle and his siblings from the late 1800's early 1900's.

However, as JC has said, an index of what is currently available would be a very good idea.

Have they actually got any records at all? I can't find any of my names either.

I have had no luck with Berkshire
Margaret