- Phase 1 Create new
transcriptions of the Parish Marriage
Registers of churches in the Parish for the years
1813-1911 and by comparisons with Baptism Registers and Census try to place
the Brides and Grooms into their respective families using the father's name
and occupation.
- Phase 2 Creates
new transcriptions of the Baptism Registers, infilling children missed in
phase 1.
- Phase 3 Creates
new transcriptions of the Census hence infilling family members not found
during the previous phases
- Phase 4 will be
creating new transcriptions of the Burial Registers also infilling family
members not found during the previous phases
- Phase 5 will be to
repeat the above process for neighbouring Parish Churches
During all these phases some individuals
will prove impossible to place correctly into a Family group, and a GRO
certificate will be required, a very expensive option and that is why the
Certificates ordered, once entered into the database, will be offered at a large
discount in order to fund this ongoing requirement
This is not going to be quick! We could save
thousands of hours by using the commercial Transcriptions available but I have
discovered that the error rate is appalling, with misspellings common place,
entire pages of Registers missing and some one has obviously decided that a lot
of time can be saved when transcribing Marriages by automatically populating the
Father's surname using the Participants Surname, not a great idea when dealing
with Widows!
Other sources such as "FamilySearch"
have also been cast aside as source material as, during one of my earlier Village
studies, I discovered that Banns Register entries were being entered as Marriages
regardless of the marriage actually taking place or not. So now you know why
some people apparently married in 3 different churches on different dates, and
why you cannot find GRO entries for some of the "Marriages"
Another issue with FamilySearch and indeed some
other commercial services is that they do not distinguish between Church Registers
and Bishop Transcripts (Parish Registers) again causing the same event apparently
occuring in multiple places.
Project Progress
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