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Are you able to visit Oxfordshire Record Office to help OFHS?
« on: Wednesday 25 October 06 20:11 BST (UK) »
Those of you who've used Oxfordshire FHS's transcripts on CD & fiche may know that we started transcribing parish registers back in the 1980s, which is why we now have so much available.

However, the downside of that is that many were typed long ago, in the days of typewriters and carbon paper !  We are doing complete and partial retyping by volunteers to replace the useful, but not computer-searchable, transcripts, and to generate a baptism index.  (That now has 500,000+ entries in it.)

Volunteers all over the world help in the re-typing, (more always
welcomed!), but our biggest need at the moment is for folk local to Oxford able to go to the Record Office and check queries that arise, such as where the transcript is unclear, or, rarely, if it seems a possible mistranscription occurred.  OFHS likes to be as accurate as possible !

Is anyone near enough to Oxford to be able to offer some time to help, please !  There's on the spot parking, the staff are helpful, the Record Office's open days include Saturdays, and it's an interesting project to be involved in !

Wendy Archer
OFHS Baptism Index co-ordinator  baptisms at ofhs.org.uk
www.ofhs.org.uk


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Re: Are you able to visit Oxfordshire Record Office to help OFHS?
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 28 October 06 08:54 BST (UK) »
Wendy

I can help with  this as I am often in the area.  E-mail marilyn.blake@btinternet.com
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Researching Bunyan  Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire.  Blakes of Winslow and Marsh Gibbon, Chatteris, London, Nottingham
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Re: Are you able to visit Oxfordshire Record Office to help OFHS?
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 29 March 07 08:32 BST (UK) »
I am doing a research project, using the Stokenchurch families in the 1841 census, so have made my own index of christenings, marriages and burials for the village.
Would the OFHS find this  index useful?
Do you feel others would find my research of interest, when completed?

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patannk
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Dobbins, Pitkin, Shepherd and White, Stokenchurch.
Clack, Berkshire. Kingwell, Cornwall and London. Wood, Kent.
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