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Offline Ringrose

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Free Reg 2.....is Free Reg 1 still available
« on: Wednesday 16 September 15 11:18 BST (UK) »
Ive used Free Reg for a long time and have been impressed with the information available.
Telling my cousin about it she finds she can only get Freereg 2 and was disappointed that the records weren't as good.
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Looking at names on Freereg 2 only gave the minimum information whereas on Free Reg 1 you could click on a name and you could get birth and baptism date,church ,parents name and job and witnesses.Not in all cases but this information and the ability to click on a name has disappeared.
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Mann Ringrose Prior( West London)Prior (Halstead Colchester and Sudbury)Ringrose (Northants) Clark(sussex  Bath)Light(Shropshire West London)Barber(Northants)Gaudern (Northants)Piper(Suffolk)Carter (Essex)Nightingale,Stiles,Dunk,Hedgecock(Kent)Mann(south Devon )Le Cronier,Le Quesne,Poingdestre,Esnouf,Le Guyt,Anley.Le Carteret(Jersey)Clark(Bath,Batcombe,and Nyland )
er(essex)Nightingale(kent Sussex)Sutton (sussex)

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Re: Free Reg 2.....is Free Reg 1 still available
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 16 September 15 11:23 BST (UK) »
This is the link to freereg(1) It seems to be working as it used to. It is the number alongside that you click
http://www.freereg.org.uk/cgi/Search.pl

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Re: Free Reg 2.....is Free Reg 1 still available
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 16 September 15 11:40 BST (UK) »
I agree with you, Ringrose.

I thought I was missing some obvious step when I inadvertently got into FreeReg2 recently. I was pleased to find FreeReg1 still existed with its extra information as you said. But for how long?

Does anyone know if there's a reason for version 2 to have less info?
Seems odd when it's always been such a great site.

To paraphrase 'If it ain't broke WHY do they have to "fix" it?' ::)

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Re: Free Reg 2.....is Free Reg 1 still available
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 16 September 15 12:17 BST (UK) »
Hi

With FreeReg2 just click on the word Detail in the right hand column for additional information. The couple of entries I looked at had the same information on FreeReg 1 and 2.

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Re: Free Reg 2.....is Free Reg 1 still available
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 16 September 15 13:00 BST (UK) »
Thank you, Andy, I must have missed that.

Pat
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Re: Free Reg 2.....is Free Reg 1 still available
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 16 September 15 13:47 BST (UK) »
I didn't see that either...needed to scroll to the left.
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Mann Ringrose Prior( West London)Prior (Halstead Colchester and Sudbury)Ringrose (Northants) Clark(sussex  Bath)Light(Shropshire West London)Barber(Northants)Gaudern (Northants)Piper(Suffolk)Carter (Essex)Nightingale,Stiles,Dunk,Hedgecock(Kent)Mann(south Devon )Le Cronier,Le Quesne,Poingdestre,Esnouf,Le Guyt,Anley.Le Carteret(Jersey)Clark(Bath,Batcombe,and Nyland )
er(essex)Nightingale(kent Sussex)Sutton (sussex)

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Re: Free Reg 2.....is Free Reg 1 still available
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 16 September 15 14:12 BST (UK) »
The info was being in putted into freereg 1 by transcribers and then transferred to freereg 2. This was 
To make sure that freereg 2 was working properly. The last I heard was that freereg1 was no longer going to be updated but transcribers are still logging into freereg 1 to input as freereg 2 is n't ready for us to log straight into but is very near to that. They will let us know when. As I understand it info which is input by 12 midnight should be able to found on search the following day.There's things which have to be changed in data , codes etc .
Any suggestions re search facilities should be able to be emailed from the freereg home page.
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