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Re: Buckinghamshire Marriages on Find My Past
« Reply #9 on: Friday 18 August 17 10:43 BST (UK) »
Oh dear! what an anticlimax! I've been waiting for these since the original announcement.

I rather thought I'd be disappointed but - really - isn't it strange that all my Russell male ancestors who married in Bucks seem to have married incestuously.....they kept that quiet!!

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 BATHSHEBA BOOTHROYD bn c. 1802 W. Yorks.

Baptism nowhere to be found. Possibly in a nonconformist church near ALMONDBURY or HUDDERSFIELD.

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Re: Buckinghamshire Marriages on Find My Past
« Reply #10 on: Friday 18 August 17 10:49 BST (UK) »
Oh dear! what an anticlimax! I've been waiting for these since the original announcement.

I rather thought I'd be disappointed but - really - isn't it strange that all my Russell male ancestors who married in Bucks seem to have married incestuously.....they kept that quiet!!

FindMyPast busy talking rubbish on Facebook at the moment - trying to make out that Bride's surnames aren't supposed to be included in the index ??? ??? ???

Not sure they've thought of the incest excuse yet   ;D ;D
Website: http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~towcesterfamilies/genealogy/
Towcester - anything, any time
Cheshire - Lambert, Houghland, Birtwisle
Liverpool - Platt, Cunningham, Ditton
London - Notley, Elsom, Billett
Oxfordshire - Hitchcock, Smith, Leonard, Taunt
Durham - Hepburn, Eltringham
Berwickshire - Guthrie, Crawford
Somerset - Taylor (Bath)
Gloucestershire - Verrinder, Colborn
Dorset - Westlake

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Re: Buckinghamshire Marriages on Find My Past
« Reply #11 on: Friday 18 August 17 20:51 BST (UK) »
Well I managed to find a marriage of my ancestor Nathaniel Keen in 1703 to Mary and parishes of residence and ages but yes, the surnames are identical. Either there was a lot of cousin marriages or they have made a huge error.  ;D

For the first time in yonks the FindMyPast Fridays have come in useful but even then they cannot get the names right. When they release the FindMyPast Friday records they have stopped people commenting through Facebook due to too much backlash from customers speaking the truth and pointing out glaring mistakes, or the fact most records are already online on other sites.
Researching:

LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain

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Re: Buckinghamshire Marriages on Find My Past
« Reply #12 on: Friday 18 August 17 21:01 BST (UK) »
Well I managed to find a marriage of my ancestor Nathaniel Keen in 1703 to Mary and parishes of residence and ages but yes, the surnames are identical. Either there was a lot of cousin marriages or they have made a huge error.  ;D

They've now realistically admitted they have made a mistake.  ::) ::)

They said on Facebook,
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We believe we have identified how to improve this record set and hope to implement this in due course.

Just hope "due course" is quicker than I suspect.  :-\ :-\
Website: http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~towcesterfamilies/genealogy/
Towcester - anything, any time
Cheshire - Lambert, Houghland, Birtwisle
Liverpool - Platt, Cunningham, Ditton
London - Notley, Elsom, Billett
Oxfordshire - Hitchcock, Smith, Leonard, Taunt
Durham - Hepburn, Eltringham
Berwickshire - Guthrie, Crawford
Somerset - Taylor (Bath)
Gloucestershire - Verrinder, Colborn
Dorset - Westlake


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Re: Buckinghamshire Marriages on Find My Past
« Reply #13 on: Friday 18 August 17 21:07 BST (UK) »
Well I managed to find a marriage of my ancestor Nathaniel Keen in 1703 to Mary and parishes of residence and ages but yes, the surnames are identical. Either there was a lot of cousin marriages or they have made a huge error.  ;D

They've now realistically admitted they have made a mistake.  ::) ::)

They said on Facebook,
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We believe we have identified how to improve this record set and hope to implement this in due course.

Just hope "due course" is quicker than I suspect.  :-\ :-\

Lets hope so. Until now very few Bucks records have been online and these new records are a godsend. As I live 150 miles away from the RO it is a big godsend to me.
Researching:

LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain

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Re: Buckinghamshire Marriages on Find My Past
« Reply #14 on: Sunday 20 August 17 05:35 BST (UK) »
Hi all
This is a disappointment - my cousin contacted them and FindMyPast said that is all they were given from the archive.
Know I'm not the only one but do like being able to see the image of the PR - more "authentic" and, also having done transcribing and knowing how hard so of the writing is to read, as a check that the transcription is correct

Are Bucks Co PR images available anywhere? Looked at Bucks FHS and they only mention transcribing and tried the Bucks Co archive but it was very confusing. Seems FamilySearch might have them but to be viewed at a Family History Centre - I was looking for Aylesbury

Does anyone know?
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Re: Buckinghamshire Marriages on Find My Past
« Reply #15 on: Sunday 20 August 17 12:03 BST (UK) »
The CBS has films, and I'm sure they hold the originals, (or they maybe held in the Oxford Diocese), but very few PR originals are available online, and what there is are usually non conformist.
I doubt very much you will get to see them in, even on a personal visit to the CBS. I believe there is restricted access to them, because of their delicate nature.
In all honesty, I have never asked to see the originals on previous visits to the CBS, as I had found what I needed on microfiche.
When printing off from microfiche, the resolution is not great.  Maybe some day they could remedy that, if they haven't already.

What I do know, is the fact that some of what used to be a free download, is only now available for a fee. Not sure how far the charges are going to go, but I guess in this day and age, they will spread further.

I suggest you contact the CBS for more information.

http://www.buckscc.gov.uk/services/culture-and-leisure/centre-for-buckinghamshire-studies/

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'For entrance to the Archives search-room, a valid County Archives Research
Network (CARN) ticket should be produced, or else another form of identification
with name, address and signature, with which a CARN ticket can be issued.
(CARN tickets can be obtained for free in the Archives search-room when
visiting the Centre.) No member of the public has the right to see any original
document without producing or obtaining a CARN ticket or showing other valid
identification, unless (s)he is the owner of the document.
i) The Centre has the right to refuse public access to any document which, in the
opinion of the staff, is in a condition such that it will be damaged by being
produced. The decision of the staff on duty is final'.


http://www.buckscc.gov.uk/media/1590/access_policy.pdf

If anyone wants, what was a FREE download(with no restriction policy at the time), a Microsoft Excel list of Marriage Bonds(Licenses), please PM me, for a FREE copy.  There is now a fee in place at the CBS.

Steve. :)
Ives, Stevens, Allen, Smith, King, Wooster, Elwood from Monks and Princes Risborough, Aylesbury, Wendover, Great Missenden, Bledlow, Horsenden, Saunderton, West Wycombe, High Wycombe, Lacey Green, Longwick, Illmer,  Hughenden, Prestwood, The Kimbles, Haslemere, Bradenham, Aston Clinton and more......!!  Plus a whole host of Oxfordshire areas.
Graham, Pimlott, Burgess from Cheshire and Lancashire area.
Acknowledgemets to http://www.bucksfhs.org.uk/  and  http://www.ofhs.org.uk/

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Re: Buckinghamshire Marriages on Find My Past
« Reply #16 on: Monday 21 August 17 16:54 BST (UK) »
Marriages now working correctly, such as they are.  :) :)

As Bucksboy says, there are huge gaps in the records - but it is still, for me, an improvement on nothing at all.
Website: http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~towcesterfamilies/genealogy/
Towcester - anything, any time
Cheshire - Lambert, Houghland, Birtwisle
Liverpool - Platt, Cunningham, Ditton
London - Notley, Elsom, Billett
Oxfordshire - Hitchcock, Smith, Leonard, Taunt
Durham - Hepburn, Eltringham
Berwickshire - Guthrie, Crawford
Somerset - Taylor (Bath)
Gloucestershire - Verrinder, Colborn
Dorset - Westlake

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Re: Buckinghamshire Marriages on Find My Past
« Reply #17 on: Monday 21 August 17 17:09 BST (UK) »
I think they have just pulled the Buckinghamshire marriages dataset which wasn't working and left Bucks marriage index which was working. 
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