Lincolnshire Parish Records

[PennyvdB1949]

Hi
Many of you may know of this search facility but Lincolnshire Archives has made many of the Lincolnshire Parish Records available on line via website Lincs to the Past and you can view records free of charge http://www.lincstothepast.com/advanced-search/ To search in the Exact Phrase box enter the name of the place followed by PAR in the Exact Phrase box      ie Barton on Humber PAR and then you will be able to see a list of the parish records they hold. The ones you can view have an image icon at the side eg
http://www.lincstothepast.com/searchResults.aspx?keywords=barton on humber par&cmd=GoToPage&val=9
if you click on the image it will open and you can view the records - unfortunately you are not able to print the images but you can order them from Lincs Archives.
 Hope this helps

Penny

[LizzieW]

Thanks Penny, I hadn't thought to use the advanced search and add PAR at the end of the place name.  Hopefully I'll be able to find the parish records more easily like that.

Will the records Lincolnshire Archives hold, but which are not yet on the LincstothePast website, be included in the near future?

Lizzie

[DCB]

Try also - http://www.findmypast.co.uk/content/lincolnshire/about

Then click on 'Browse the Lincolnshire Parish Registers'

This gives (I think) a better indication of what is available at LTP but you need a subscription to see the images. I believe the images are cheaper to download from FindMyPast. However, if you buy credits, you might use most of them trying to find the exact one.

David

[PennyvdB1949]

Hi Lizzie
I would have thought so at some point, some may be too fragile to digitalize and some too recent for data protection but Lincs Archives would be best to ask. You can email them via the website. What Parish and dates were you looking for?

[LizzieW]

David - I do subscribe to FindMyPast but I don't find the Lincolnshire records any easier to search on there.  For instance I chose St Botolph's Boston, and got 61 pages, with 50 images per page.  So even if you know an approximate year, you first have to make a guess as to which page it would be on and then which set of records.  Also despite it showing that the baptismal records are supposed to be from 1622-1911, the first line on the first page starts at 1833.

Penny - thanks for your reply.  I can't remember which parishes and dates I was searching for, I have many ancestors from Lincolnshire and frequently do searches to find their baptism and or marriage dates.  The records I've been looking for are mainly 17th and 18th century so data protection is not a problem.  Most of them do seem to exist but suggest they are available in the reading room in Lincs Archives, but as I live in Hampshire that's not very useful for me.  Perhaps, as you say, they are too fragile to digitalize.

Lizzie

[PennyvdB1949]

know what you men Lizzie I'm in Bedfordshire so you can't just pop into the Archives. A lot of records may not have survived as well. I'm a member of Lincs Family History Society and you can buy CDs of records from them quite reasonably and if you have any specific queries the lady who deals with their enquiries Ruth is a positive MINE of information and very helpful. We even got chatting via email once and I'm 64 but it turns out she used to work in the post office near to where my parents lived when I was a baby so was likely my mum would visit her in the post  office. The yearly subscription is nominal  - I think its £10pa and you get a quarterly magazine that's fascinating. If you need any help with Lincs records I'll be happy to help. If you have a look at the Lincs to the Past as I said if you can view them on line there's an icon at the side of the relevant records for the years you're looking at.
Good hunting
Penny

[DCB]

Lizzie,

I agree that FindMyPast is not easy to use, which is why you wouldn't want to use it with credits.

I also had an initial problem with St Botolph. For some reason, the early records are at the end, starting on page 27 with image 1876.

However, it easier to find out what is available, even if you prefer LTP.

David

[LizzieW]

Penny and David - Thank you both for your helpful comments.

David - I'll try FindMyPast in the future, especially for the more obscure places, as I have a subscription it's not a problem.

Penny - I might join the Lincs FHS, I already subscribe to 2 others as my ancestors moved around rather a lot, before they all seemed to end up in Cheshire and Manchester.

[PennyvdB1949]

excuse my ignorance (relatively new to this) what is FindMyPast?  LTP Lincs to the Past? lol