Coverage of Ancestry PRs for Somerset?

[AdrianB38]

I apologise for starting a new thread for this but the other 2 re the Ancestry offering appear to be locked. Anyway - I appreciate this may still be new, but does anyone have an indication how complete the release is? I wasn't expecting a full release - they took about 3 goes to release Lancashire and even now I've seen no comment about completeness - it's just that I've found all the Lancs parishes I've been looking for.

I don't have a huge interest in Somerset - only 1 ancestor from there (but a confusing one - he claimed to be from Twerton in the 1851 but I have a feeling he's from Taunton). All I can offer is that of the 15 or so parishes covering (primarily) pre-1813 Taunton and adjacent areas, 11 appear in Ancestry's Browse - I hope that means they've been indexed!

(There is at least one caveat to the 11 - I noticed that Bishops Hull has a big gap in its burials from 1848-1869).

Any further comments from anyone?

[rosie99]

Slightly off the subject but freereg has Taunton transcripts http://freereg2.freereg.org.uk/

Rosie

[Hystericalwriter]

Ancestry appears to have both Twerton and Twerton St Peters online..... Twerton sometimes get confused with Tiverton in Devon tho'

Anne

[DRH123]

The coverage is certainly not complete at the moment. I've noticed at least half a dozen missing parishes, without particularly looking for them.

I've heard that another batch is due "later in the year".

Even if they cover every register the SHC has, there are still some post-1812 registers retained at the parishes.

David

[smudwhisk]

I've also heard (probably from the same source) that there is another release for Somerset due "later in the year".

I do know parts of Rodney Stoke and Norton St Philip are missing.

If its anything like the release for Gloucestershire, some of the registers for particular parishes had been uploaded but not actually indexed.  Its always worth looking through the browse feature to see if they are on there already.

[AdrianB38]

Thanks for the comments.

The coverage is certainly not complete at the moment. I've noticed at least half a dozen missing parishes, without particularly looking for them. ...

If I found 4 missing of 15, and you've found missing ones without particularly trying, then even though it's only a statistical sample of 2 people, it strongly suggests a considerable number aren't in yet. Which I don't have a problem with, so long as it's clear what the situation is.

... If its anything like the release for Gloucestershire, some of the registers for particular parishes had been uploaded but not actually indexed. ...

Oh ... right. It's important to know that Ancestry do that. I was looking in the browse facility and using that as an indicator that the indexing included that parish, though I realised it might not be the case. Sounds like it might be trickier than I had hoped. 

[avrilw]

Hi

some Twerton records here

https://uk.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/wellow/files

but you need to join the group to access them.

[PrawnCocktail]

Widcombe isn't there   

Good job it's on FreeReg!

 

[avrilw]

do you use this site for Somerset?

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/ian.sage/PR/pr_index_uz.html#W

Avril