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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Sussex => Topic started by: Hampshire Lass on Sunday 17 October 10 17:31 BST (UK)
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Hi,
Today I went to a family history fair and bought the Sussex Family History Group marriage index cd. Please does anyone have any knowledge of this cd as I need some help.
I gave it a "test drive" by looking up something I already knew:-
James Robins married Sussanah Cornford at Heathfield on 7 Nov 1780.
When I looked it up there is a mysterious mention of Tenterden under the groom.
If anyone can look this up and explain it to me I would be grateful.
Also how do you look at the marriage licences in the other areas. ie Canterbury?
Many thanks :)
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It means that he was of the parish of Tenterden - at the time of the marriage at least. it also shows that she is daughter of John. they add in whaever liitle snippets they can. Often you get the witnesses as well. Always worth looking at the entry via both names too as they can vary.
I don't think Canterbury licences will be on - only Chichester. Don't think I have ever seen one but am prepared to be corrected.
Andrea
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Hi Andrea,
Thank you for replying and explaining it to me.
I thought that James Robins was christened in Warbleton on 29 April 1750 and from that I have acquired his parents names and therefore gone back another generation.
When I saw the refence to Tenterden I became doubtful of that info but cannot find a James Robins born in Tenterden so wondered what it meant.
Best wishes :)
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Click on Reference at the top and then on the 'Marriage Licences' tab. There are several hundred Canterbury licences.
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Thanks a lot for that info - I thought it was on there somewhere but couldn't seem to get to grips with it. :)
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I hadn't seen that either and I have had the CD for years!
Andrea
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The licences will be a subset involving a Sussex party.
In passing, in the 2005 and 2008 editions (but not 2004) there is also a folder called SMIExtra where an attempt has been made to extract surnames from the witnesses etc.. Click on index.html.
If you have the original edition (or don't have the CD) http://www.sfhg.org.uk/smiextra may be of interest.
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Thanks for all the help.
My CD is 2008 edition and perhaps I'm in "thick" mode today but I can't find what you are pointing out.
Thanks anyway :)
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You need to look at the folder on the CD.
Click on My computer / right click on the CD drive and select Explore / double click on the SMIExtra folder
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I'm not very experienced yet with computers!!! I still can't get there!
But - I looked at the link on your previous message and that brings up extra names which suprised me because that is without using the SMI CD. I wasn't expecting that.
There is certainly a lot to explore both with the CD and my membership.
I'm impressed already with all the extra info for my tree though.
Best wishes :)
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Just to say I got there in the end.
I have windows vista so had to read the cd folder in the first instance to be able to access the cd info. Do I have to do that for the extra names each time? :)
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You could copy the folder to your hard drive and access it there.
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Thank you for your reply :)
I can't seem to do that either!!!
Don't want to be a nuisance to you, so I'll understand if you don't want to keep giving me lessons, you kindly answered my first question and then I seem to have opened a can of worms!!
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It's not a difficult task but more difficult to describe when not knowing how much you know. Simplest would be to get someone to show you.
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Thanks :) I appreciate it's very difficult to explain to me.
I'm slowly teaching myself as I experiment with things as I go along and have amazed myself with how much I can do but unfortunately that only works so far and does have it's limitations!!
At the moment I have the link you posted on my favorites bar and the record comes up via that.
Appreciate all your help :)