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Title: looking for members pre 1851
Post by: pootle26 on Saturday 12 February 05 20:23 GMT (UK)
hi - i have got back as far as 1851  ;D
- can anyone tell me how to go about searching now ??? ???
i assume we would look in the parish records
 
i seem to recall that you can buy parish records etc on
 cd- rom  but cant seem to find any info on that now and i am beginning to wonder if i imagined it!

the place i am after is sible hedingham in ESSEX -

can you buy these? - do they cover more than one parish?
or all they all a figment of my imagination???  :-[

 i am moving out of the country soon so if i can obtain these cd roms that will make my search easier

many thanks

pootle
Title: Re: looking for members pre 1851
Post by: MarieC on Sunday 13 February 05 10:12 GMT (UK)
Pootle,

Yes, I think you need parish records. 

I don't know if they are available on CD but did you know that the LDS has microfilmed a lot (but not all) of English parish records?

You can check their catalogue online at www.familysearch.org, or at an LDS Family History Centre.  If you find the ones you want, you can order them in to your local LDS centre and they will let you know when they come.  You then have four weeks to go through them.

This works well for me in Aus., so I am sure it will work for you!

MarieC
Title: Re: looking for members pre 1851
Post by: audrey on Sunday 13 February 05 10:15 GMT (UK)
yes the British Vital Record index can be bought from the address given to you by Mariec and i recommend it
audrey
Title: Re: looking for members pre 1851
Post by: pootle26 on Sunday 13 February 05 10:31 GMT (UK)
 ;D ;D ;D

hi thanks for that - i knew i didnt imagine it!!

i have seen the parish records available to buy on fische from essex library (or something like that)
i havent got a fische her but our local museum is a family history site - so i may be able to buy them & use the fisches there - has anyone done this?

many thanks

pootle


btw - i will be in oz soon too!!!
Title: Re: looking for members pre 1851
Post by: audrey on Sunday 13 February 05 10:35 GMT (UK)
you can get it on 16 Cds it cover births and marriages
audrey
Title: Re: looking for members pre 1851
Post by: pootle26 on Sunday 13 February 05 10:39 GMT (UK)
hi - the 16 cds - what does that cover -??

are we talking about bvri or parish records now?

sorry to sound stooopid -  ???


pootle  ;D ;D


Title: Re: looking for members pre 1851
Post by: MarieC on Sunday 13 February 05 10:42 GMT (UK)
Onya, Pootle!  (as we say in Oz)

Whereabouts in this great country will you be?

MarieC
Title: Re: looking for members pre 1851
Post by: pootle26 on Sunday 13 February 05 10:46 GMT (UK)
we are going to western australia
- northam to be precise

 ;D


just seen you are looking for people from brighton - i come from near there originally!!!


what a small world !
Title: Re: looking for members pre 1851
Post by: MarieC on Sunday 13 February 05 10:55 GMT (UK)
I'm on t'other side, near the east coast, in Queensland! :)

I think my Hartleys lived in Brighton for awhile, but didn't come from there originally.  He was a portrait painter in Victorian times :)

MarieC