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The Common Room / Re: Downloading Parish Records Online Image
« on: Friday 20 July 18 10:21 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: aldgate on Sunday 07 January 18 11:32 GMT (UK)
Hi - newbie here. I've been doing ancestry/find my past at the local library for over a year now and was wondering is there a way to download complete parish record images of one parish in one go (eg 1538-1914) either from a society or ancestry/find my past.
At the moment I have gone as far as I can with the family tree and so I am now just downloading parish register images at the rate of about 7 a minute and then going through checking surnames. For those of you who have put up parish transciptions many, many, many thanks but you can't beat the real thing.
I'm doing a few Somerset parishes at the moment but the thing is if someone has done this before it seems a bit of a waste. I realise the copyright laws but if say there are up to 50 000 parishes in Britain and Ireland rthen if a few 1000 of us can do a few each then that would help.

Thanks in advance. I've booked a week holiday in Somerset this spring to check graves so you know I've caught the bug - Yours Aldgate.

What you're proposing seems to be what has already been started by organisations such as FreeReg, part of the  Free UK Genealogy Charity.

Rather than re-invent the wheel and go over the same ground that others have already covered, why not offer your services as a volunteer transcriber?

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The Common Room / Re: Trying to obtain birth cert
« on: Friday 20 July 18 09:47 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Certacito on Friday 06 July 18 22:36 BST (UK)
Sorry to keep on but am getting frustrated with this so have decided to send a letter to the register office with all the details and a cheque.  Can anyone tell me what a full birth certificate costs these days please?

I don't think it differs from place to place but just in case it is Stoke on Trent.

Apologies if this information is redundant or I'm teaching granny how to suck eggs, but I've only just now dropped into this thread and haven't seen any mention of this method so far.

Have you researched the person's birth on the Staffs BMD website (http://www.staffordshirebmd.org.uk)?

If you have, did you find the person in question?  If you did, there's a reference number on the search result listing and you can create an order form with instructions from the number.

Click on the reference number and a tab should open in your browser with the list of those you've clicked.
Go to that tab and click on the reference number there.   You'll be shown a postal request form which already has details of the person and reference number, together with instructions how to pay and the address in Hanley to send the form to.  All you do is complete your details and send it off with £10.
Apparently, you only have to include the date of birth and some other info if you want a short certificate, otherwise you only get the full version, which seems a little odd but never mind.

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Cheshire / Re: STRETCH FAMILY
« on: Sunday 06 March 16 13:06 GMT (UK)  »
Just a quick note from a Stretch ex-pat now half a world away from his home county of Cheshire.  Just joined but active elsewhere. 
My research is mostly online because I'm so far away, but I still have too much to assimilate and too little time to do it ...


As well as my own, Cheshire surnames I'm looking at include Anderson, Bennett/Bennet, Brammell, Dodd, Fowles, Wainwright in the east... Nantwich, Over to Northwich and on to Macclesfield, Whaley Bridge/Manchester etc. 
Most other names on the other trunk of the tree are in Liverpool, Yorks, Lincs, Norfolk, etc.

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Cheshire / Re: Saltersford-Cum-Kettleshulme
« on: Sunday 06 March 16 12:45 GMT (UK)  »
Several years further down the pipe, the information you gave helped me greatly, so thank you very much, Stan.
 
I was trying to tie up a couple of loose ends re a christening of one of my ancestors; I thought I had were two different places which I now know were one and the same.
Two down, an infinite number of loose ends to go.  ;)

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