Alan's Northamptonshire Website

[mgeneas]

Most of you know Alan Clarke's website at http://www.familyhistorynorthants.co.uk/index.html

Because of the cost of maintaining it, in the beginning of February it will be no more.
Any suggestions of where to host some of the content (free) are welcome.

Besides the Baptism, Marriage and Burial Indexes (which are for sale - or free lookups available) you can find free to view

Military Marriages in the county extracted from the marriage index
Northampton Hospital Admissions
WW1 Soldier Index
WW1 Roll of Honour
Newspaper Index 1833-1848
Northampton Independent Articles from 1909-1932
Militia Index 1762
Wills Index 1852-1857
Miscellaneous Wills transcriptions
Northampton Police Register
Northampton St Giles and St Sepulchre Removals/Settlements
Northamptonshire Strays Index (12,000 marriages of Northants folk who married in other counties)
Travellers index taken from the1751-1812 baptism transcriptions
Local Maps
Old photographs of Northampton town streets

and more......

[TonyV]

Sorry to hear that Marilyn. Such a lot of work by you and Alan and others has gone into the stuff on Alan's webpages. I hope that you are successful in finding good homes for it all.

Tony

[mgeneas]

Thanks Tony - I hope so too.

Marilyn

[seahall]

I  am sadly counting down the days until the web site disappears .

It will be a great loss to so many Northants Researchers and it had so much more than just Parish Records etc (as previously listed) and will be a great loss to the free information contained on it that took years to compile.

I am just thankful to have purchased so many of the cd's etc.

Thank you both (and all who contributed) for a brilliant web site and hopefully you will find another to host what are in-valuable records of our County.

Sandy 

[mgeneas]

The last day will be about Feb 4th.

[seahall]

Tony I have spent nearly all week-end downloading anything I needed.

Now I need to check my cd's to make sure I have them all.

Sandy 

[TonyV]

Hi Sandy

I had a look immediately as well. Early on in my research Marilyn was kind enough to do a one name scan of Alan's records for me and of course since then so much has been copied to sites like Ancestry. However there is no substitute for the all the other records Alan and Marilyn amassed over many years - pioneers in many ways.

Like so many people who visit this forum, distance makes visiting the Northampton record office fairly impracticable so being able to obtain records from Alan & Marilyn was vital.

Tony

[seahall]

I agree Tony.
I live in the County and have not visited the Record Office for many a year.
It is a nightmare getting there and with reduced hours there and the Library.
I always remember when we lost the Barrall Marriage Index so suddenly.
It was a brilliant index having Registry Office Marriages etc on it too.
I will be sad to see other people's information on their families etc dis-appear also.
I directed a lady from New Zealand elsewhere to the Collins page that Alan hosts as I recognized a link, a week from now that would not have been possible. I therefore am glad about that.
We still have the Northants Family History and other links for Northants still.
I luckily have quite an amount of my own indexes and images for the County so feel grateful
that I will still be able to help folk.

Sandy

[mgeneas]

Good news as the Northamptonshire Family History Society will be hosting the strays index on their website. I will let you know when it goes live!

Marilyn