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General => The Common Room => The Lighter Side => Topic started by: Gardener on Sunday 22 October 06 18:54 BST (UK)
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http://www.cofe.anglican.org/about/librariesandarchives/familyhistory/index.html
This is a new site to me (apologies if it has been discussed before) and it doesn't strike me as terribly helpful! I think if i were starting here I would rapidly give up :)
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I've had a few contacts with the Church of England, seeking forebears, and they haven't been very satisfactory. I suspect their record-keeping has been rather lacking in the past, and now it's too late for anyone to do anything about it!
MarieC
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Oh dear - may I put a different perspective - its usually not the record keeping that is at fault but accessing them.
Many records are still in the church itself, although now parishes increasingly deposit their old registers in the local records office . But you can imagine that a clergyman who looks after even one church (and more and more look after two or three or four or five or six or more) probably gets quite a number of enquiries each week, and increasingly so with the current popularity of genealogy all over the world. So whilst it is frustrating that many have reluctantly taken the decision that they can not help, please understand that they are already very VERY busy being clergymen.