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Re: Suffolk parish registers to go online?
« Reply #207 on: Wednesday 03 July 24 20:08 BST (UK) »
Peter J. Richardson via Suffolk groups.io wrote:

"I was recently advised during a visit to Bury RO that the registers were 80% filmed which is ahead of expectation but the transcriptions still have to be done. Ancestry are on target, target being "early next year"."

Thanks for sharing this update!

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Re: Suffolk parish registers to go online?
« Reply #208 on: Wednesday 03 July 24 20:38 BST (UK) »
That is good news indeed, thanks for the update. Roll on early next year !
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Re: Suffolk parish registers to go online?
« Reply #209 on: Sunday 07 July 24 16:17 BST (UK) »
If transcription hasn't even been started yet, the idea of the PRs being available online early next year seems  to be somewhat optimistic, putting it kindly.  Filming is the shorter part of the process; transcription will take months, if not years, as each item will have to be transcribed  a number of times to ensure accuracy.   
Suffolk: Pearl(e),  Garnham, Southgate, Blo(o)mfield,Grimwood/Grimwade,Josselyn/Gosling
Durham/Yorkshire: Sedgwick/Sidgwick, Shadforth
Ireland: Davis
Norway: Torreson/Torsen/Torrison
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Re: Suffolk parish registers to go online?
« Reply #210 on: Sunday 07 July 24 17:39 BST (UK) »
Actually Ancestry have for years used a highly professional transcription company in India whose teams have lots of experience in transcribing English parish registers including early and hard to decipher records. That together with Ancestry's advanced use of AI, I am expecting the transcriptions and indexing to be complete much earlier than you expect.


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Re: Suffolk parish registers to go online?
« Reply #211 on: Sunday 07 July 24 18:53 BST (UK) »
I do a lot of transcription work for various bodies so I do have experience of the timeframes involved.  Shame Ancestry farms out its transcription work to India; there are plenty of resources for this kind of work in the UK & US I'm sure.

One of my favourite projects was Shakespeare's World, a collaboration between the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC, Oxford University & the OED.  Between 2015 and 2019 we transcribed thousands of documents from Shakespeare's time.  Wonderful stuff.  Nothing like selecting the next document to transcribe & find an image of an original letter written by Ben Johnson! Other interesting projects were transcribing the letters & diaries of the officers and men who fought at Waterloo, and the documents of the original Greenwich Naval Hospital. I'm currently working on a project transcribing the documents & notes of surveyors mapping the Great Lakes in the late 18th/early 19th centuries.
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Durham/Yorkshire: Sedgwick/Sidgwick, Shadforth
Ireland: Davis
Norway: Torreson/Torsen/Torrison
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Re: Suffolk parish registers to go online?
« Reply #212 on: Tuesday 23 July 24 16:53 BST (UK) »
I'd be lost without the SFHS transcriptions of the 1650-1813 baptism CD's, and their Suffolk Burial Index 1538-1900 or their 1754-1837 marriage CD's. Many pre 1754 marriages for Suffolk are covered by Boyds.

Many records not available on Anc, FindMyPast, FS, IGI etc. I have a colossal amount of Suffolk ancestry.
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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: Suffolk parish registers to go online?
« Reply #213 on: Thursday 07 November 24 07:52 GMT (UK) »
I have been holding back on trying to dig further into my late XVII/ early XVIII century Orford family, pending the publication of the promised Ancestry transcriptions "early next year".  Is it known whether other records will be published such as wills and Bishops’ transcriptions?

Will there be anything on these records not already available on the Suffolk Family History Society transcriptions?

Some of the Orford curates were extremely remiss about maintaining their records up-to date. Some of the dates seem to have been added later at random and are highly suspect, but worse still, if an event was never recorded at all there is hardly likely to be a record of it!
HOLLINSHED, BRADY of Orford, Suffolk, Essex, Woolley, Stockport & London; THURSTON, SYER, CRABBE, ALLDIS, RIPPER, BATTALAY, BATELL. CHANDLER of Suffolk; PARR, &LAKE & LONG, Essex; WIKE, of Bury, London & Canterbury; OPENSHAW, ORMEROD of Bury, Lancs; BROTHERSON of St. Croix; MANGNALL & CUNLIFFE of Stockport; BEECH of Broughton; BARNETT, INGRAM of Lincs & Cambs; BRODIE/BRADY  North East Scotland; PAGE, GRAY, McKENZIE, McDOWELL, HOLT & MARTIN N.Ireland

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Re: Suffolk parish registers to go online?
« Reply #214 on: Thursday 07 November 24 09:41 GMT (UK) »
Brady - Ancestry are scanning and digitising the actual original Suffolk parish registers of baptisms marriages and burials, and the archdeacons transcriptions and bishops transcripts too. Those high quality images will be available in colour on Ancestry in 2025 along with their own transcriptions.

Next Ancestry will do the same for Suffolk wills held at Suffolk Archives. Already available are large quantities of digital images of some Suffolk wills such as those proved in the PCC on Ancestry and The National Archives, and those proved at Norwich on FamilySearch. Some digital Suffolk wills are available on the Suffolk Archives website but they are £6 each which in most cases is not affordable.

Yes, all of the above will compliment the SFHS transcriptions. Nothing can beat viewing the high quality original pages of these source records.

Ancestry are requesting suggestions for which Suffolk records they should digitise next.

Most of my Suffolk research has also been on hold, for decades, waiting for these gamechanging sources.

Exciting times ahead!

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Re: Suffolk parish registers to go online?
« Reply #215 on: Sunday 10 November 24 16:00 GMT (UK) »
Trotting off to record offices is fast becoming a thing of the past now thanks to FindMyPast and Ancestry. I cannot wait for the new Suffolk registers on Ancestry.
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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