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I don’t know what you are looking at, but my Item 23 has 1415 images! The 79 images you are looking at are overseer records, not parish register!

You might try looking on FamilySearch. They have un-indexed images for HT available to browse. (Login, search\catalogue for HT, select on-line only, then select Church records.) The PR Transcripts for 1556-1860 are available to view. I had a quick look, and found lots of church warden accounts, and ...

We all complain when Baptisn entries just refer to father’s name, with no mention of mother’s name. The vicar of Widworthy, Devon in 1600’s took it a step further when it came to entering marriages, he show a typical marriage as ‘John Snell and his wife Christian were married on ….’! Talk about maki...

You’ll find the same thing happens with FamilySearch films. If they ‘sell’ the rights to a film to the likes of FMP or Ancestry, then they block browsing access to registered users trying to access them What complicates / confuses is that Ancestry / whoever often then pays FS for the right to use i...

You’ll find the same thing happens with FamilySearch films. If the ‘sell’ the rights to a film to the likes of FMP or Ancestry, then they block browsing access to regsitered users trying to access them

The same goes for Familysearch, after you log in, search the catalog for a Parish, select Church Records and you may be able to browse the actual Parish register images. Extremely useful if they haven’t yet indexed them. Because without an index being available, they won’t be searchable. By browsing...

A case of recruit wanting to appear younger than he was, unlike WW1, when boys pretended to be older than they were. So lying about their age was not so unusual

Have just received an Ancestry e-mail concerning George Henry Sellers (1865-1914) (their words) and the 1939 Register!

He'd been dead for 25 years by 1939, so how could it possibly be relevant?

Something seriously wrong with the algorithm to come up with that hint

It’s no too late to edit the title

You don’t specifically say, but I assume by ‘it’, you’re talking about ordering a DNA kit