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I have No doubt we'll find out on the first Friday in May (assuming their 'once a month' follows a pattern) whether the next PRs to be released are originals or transcriptions, and I think that may establish the way of it.
Jill
Somerset and Warwickshire will be transcripts because the originals are already available on Ancestry. Somerset were only released last year. If the remainder are too it does make you wonder why FindMyPast are trumpeting them so much as they know well enough that people want to see the originals by preference. The Genealogist are the same, they have announced they've uploaded Durham but as far as I can see they aren't the originals so why all the fanfare. Yes transcripts are useful but nothing like seeing the originals because mistakes in transcripts aren't that uncommon. I meant to go and ask at WDYTYA Live last week whether they were only transcripts but forgot.
Sadly, in light of the absolute mess FindMyPast made of Hertfordshire, I don't hold out much hope any of their original register collections will be complete anyway. I know Ancestry are as bad but FindMyPast do like to blow their own trumpet rather and then fall flat when its looked into. And yes I've criticised Ancestry enough, there is still 40 years missing from Enfield St Andrew, which has been missing since the collection was launched some years back.
Anyway, only time will tell, I just think everyone need to not get their hopes up too much as I suspect we'll be disappointed, although in the case of Bucks and Berks I'm happy to be proven wrong.
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