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Topic: LMA digitisation progress ? (Read 789 times)
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Ravelin
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Hello
Does anyone have any idea on when the London parish registers for baptism's marriages & burials will become available on Ancestry.co.uk ?
I am unsure weather to wait for them to become available online or take a trip to the LMA.
Ravelin
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Ravelin
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Thank you for your reply and link Valda.
I was hoping for them to be released all at once. I guess that is not possible in the near future as it is such a big project.
Hopefully some of my Parish interests will become available this year 
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Ravelin
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Thank you for that info Dawn.
Not long to go then for the next batch. 
I guess those later baptisms with the new design format are much easier to transcribe.
Ravelin
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smudwhisk
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Its a shame that they won't as an interim measure make the images available without the transcriptions/indexes, as Essex RO and Medway Archives have done anyway. I would imagine by now a lot of the records have probably been imaged but are awaiting transcriptions/indexing.
Nicola
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Middlesex: Briggs, Sadler, Dyson, Hyatt, Haydon, Timson, Stevens, Archer, Goreing, Fray, Clements, Pauley
Surrey: Pledge, Mayer, Tim(p)son, Rayment
Essex: Fennings, Rudland, Malden, Rayment, Walker, Isack, Syday, Gray, Green,
Kent: Stone, Lingwell, Rayment
Herts: Hutchin(g)s, Winchester, Hughes
Norfolk: Johnson
Dorset: Gibbs, Gor(e)ing
Wiltshire: Archer, Matthews, Arden, Greenhill
Durham: Fowles, Green
Somerset: Coombs
Berks: Sansom, Day, Young, Viner, Deacon,
& numerous others!
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Ravelin
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Yes i agree with you Nicola that they could make the images availalable before they transcribe and index them.
The indexes will of course be great but there is something very rewarding about looking through a parish record yourself and finding that elusive baptism, marriage or burial.
Looking forward to the first batch release in september.
Ravelin
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Valda
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Hi
Which is interesting because that is just what Ancestry have done with the poor law records and on this board have received moans about them putting up images that people have to wade through without an index.
Regards
Valda
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smudwhisk
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Some people are unfortunately never satisfield
To be honest, its no different to going down to the LMA and wading through films. I'd like to see the images online so at least you get a chance to look at them. I wouldn't trust an ancestry index anyway, so many of them are full of typos of one form or another. The * is such a useful letter ....
Unfortunately the only poor law records I'm interested in are for Battersea and aren't on yet. I'm more interested in pre-1813 parish registers and would welcome the chance to plough through them at home since its somewhat cheaper than spending about £40 on a day trip to London during which I'm lucky to get through more than half a dozen years in some of the larger parishes. If they were available online to be looked at "manually" at least it gives those of us prepared to do some old fashioned research and wade through the registers the chance to go through them. Anyone wishing to wait for ancestry's indexes can do that. It might even get ancestry some more members if they were available sooner than later minus the indexes. I suspect there are a few people holding off buying subscriptions until more of the records become available. Indexes are all well and good but only as good as the person (or computer) doing the indexing.
Nicola
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Middlesex: Briggs, Sadler, Dyson, Hyatt, Haydon, Timson, Stevens, Archer, Goreing, Fray, Clements, Pauley
Surrey: Pledge, Mayer, Tim(p)son, Rayment
Essex: Fennings, Rudland, Malden, Rayment, Walker, Isack, Syday, Gray, Green,
Kent: Stone, Lingwell, Rayment
Herts: Hutchin(g)s, Winchester, Hughes
Norfolk: Johnson
Dorset: Gibbs, Gor(e)ing
Wiltshire: Archer, Matthews, Arden, Greenhill
Durham: Fowles, Green
Somerset: Coombs
Berks: Sansom, Day, Young, Viner, Deacon,
& numerous others!
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Nick29
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Some people are unfortunately never satisfield To be honest, its no different to going down to the LMA and wading through films. I'd like to see the images online so at least you get a chance to look at them.......
I'm afraid it's not as simple as that, for two reasons......
1. Both Ancestry and the end user have to pay for internet "bandwidth" (the amount of data sent and received), and without an index you could be downloading huge amounts of data, because image files are quite large. Some ISP's in the UK put a limit on the amount of data you can download in a month, and either charge extra for exceeding this, or they throttle the connection for over-use. Ancestry also do not want their servers overloaded with people casually thumbing through images (although this does happen - I had to go through about 40 images on the 1901 census to find my grandfather and his family, because of a mis-transcription).
2. You also have to appreciate that not all users of Ancestry are subscribers, and with no indexes, it's practically impossible to offer pages to PPV users.
I know we're all impatient to view these LMA pages, but you have to realise the practicalities of the situation.
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dawnsh
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I have been advised that the LMA parish register collection will be updated and put online on the 14th or 15th September.
The addition of more records from the LMA collection to the Ancestry database has been eagerly awaited for several months now.
However, please note:
It is not permitted to ask for, or offer lookups from, any commercial or copyrighted databases, for example Ancestry, Findmypast, The Genealogist, the IGI and others, too many to list here.
The Copyright team works hard to ensure that any request or offer which contravenes the Terms & Conditions is dealt with by its removal.
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukSherry-Paddington & Marylebone, Longhurst-Ealing & Capel, Abinger, Ewhurst & Ockley, Chandler-Chelsea |
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Ravelin
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Thank you for the update on their digitisation progress Dawn.
This is excellent news. 
Looking forward to seeing the first batch of baptism, marriage and burials from the London PR's.
Ravelin
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