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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Lincolnshire => Topic started by: sue 1950 on Saturday 28 July 12 05:40 BST (UK)
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Can some one help me find a birth on the above website, I know it's on there but for some reason I can't seem to get the page, I find this site very hard to navigate, I am looking for Joseph Dixon bn Alford Lincolnshire 7th Nov 1812 parents are Richard and Bridget Dixon. Thankyou
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Hi Sue :)
7th from bottom http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=514984&iid=26822
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Thankyou Geoff, I was trying to find an older post of mine as you answered this last time for me, can you tell me how you found it because I put alford in the search for baptists and I didn't get anything just pages from a book...
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baptists
;D
I searched
Alford baptisms 1812
then clicked "Images"
If that hadn't worked, I would have tried 1811.
If a page is indexed 1809-1812 then searching 1810 or 1811 won't find it. :-\
I know pamthomas has other ways of finding things. :)
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Sue; this may help you find things on links to the past. I use Firefox for most brtowsing on the web, however, I find it unusuable with the Lincs site, on there I use IE 8 which is generally inferior to firefox, but not on the Lincs site.
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I'm blowed if I can see any difference. ???
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Computers and ISPs are strange animals Geoff, all I can say is it works better for me in IE8 than Firefox.
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Thanks for that, I just seem to find it hard for anything useful to come up if I am looking for a marriage otr birth and I type in the town and date nothing comes up even if I click images sometimes I just get pages of Lincolnshire Life, I am so baffled with the site.But thankyou all for your help. I am obviously doing something wrong
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The site is should we say opaque, however, there is so much information on it that it has to be worthwhile persevering. When it was first introduced I placed a very adverse comment about it being more productive for me to spend 5 hours on a train in each direction, plus three hours in the archive than to try to use the site. However, after downloading the PDF help document and re-installing Internet Explorer I found it was possible to do meaningful research on it.
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I searched
Alford baptisms 1812
then clicked "Images"
If that hadn't worked, I would have tried 1811.
If a page is indexed 1809-1812 then searching 1810 or 1811 won't find it. :-\
I know pamthomas has other ways of finding things. :)
pamthomas does things the 'long way' to make use of her maths skills. ;D
1. Checks for the correct parish name by scrolling to the end of the 'how to search parish registers' download in the help section.
2. Enters the parish name followed by PAR 1 in the 'with the exact phrase' box on the advanced search page.
3. Scrolls down results page to find correct register (e.g. if I want baptisms 1820-1840, ain't no use selecting
burials 1863-1911. :))
4. Checks 'years covered' to 'number of images', and calculates either images per year or years per image, depending on which number is the larger.
5. Then calculates which image number is probably the one I want.
e.g. I want a baptism in about 1827. The register covers 1813-1837, and there are 48 images. 48 images covering 24 years equals (on average) 2 images per year.
Therefore a baptism in 1827 is likely to be 14 (number of years between 1813 and 1827) times 2 (average number of images per year) equals 28.
6. Checks years covered on image 28, and then goes backwards or forwards as necessary.
It gets slighter more complicated when you get, say, two and a half images per year and the register covers, say, 1813-1870.
That's when you have to be really good at maths. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Ahhh thanks Pam, that's brilliant..I've had no end of problems with Alford. Your way I hit the mark within 2 pages and found another son ;D
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Ahhh thanks Pam, that's brilliant..I've had no end of problems with Alford. Your way I hit the mark within 2 pages and found another son ;D
High-five! :)
Though I knew I'd forget one important piece of the instructions, and that was to leave the 'records' radio button selected.
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Hello,
Lincs to the Past was once a no no for me, couldn't find anything, but having followed pamthomas instructions at last i got a burial.
What i want to know is...what's the par 1 for on the end of the place you want, does par 1 apply to everything you're searching for?
Also at the side of a marriage i'm looking for there's no docs and when i click onto it, it's just a blank page, does this mean they haven't done it yet.?
I'm looking for a marriage with just a last name of Vickers (poss Hullett) and hopeing her father is Horace, married at Barton on Humber 1956 (or a year either side and yes i know it's a long shot) i know the marriage happened 'cause i was there, but i was very young. lol
Any help and i would be most grateful.
Sue
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I'm looking for a marriage with just a last name of Vickers (poss Hullett) and hopeing her father is Horace, married at Barton on Humber 1956 (or a year either side and yes i know it's a long shot)
As far as I know, there are no marriages after 1837. :-\
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Thank's very much Geoff,
That would explain it then.
Sue
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Hello,
Lincs to the Past was once a no no for me, couldn't find anything, but having followed pamthomas instructions at last i got a burial.
Another high-five!
What i want to know is...what's the par 1 for on the end of the place you want, does par 1 apply to everything you're searching for?
PAR 1 is the 'code' for parish registers. The numbers are further split down into sections such as PAR1/2/10, but unless you know the exact 'full' reference of the register, then just use PAR 1.
Also at the side of a marriage I'm looking for there's no docs and when i click onto it, it's just a blank page, does this mean they haven't done it yet.?
I presume you mean that you clicked on the 'Marriages (St Peter)' or 'Marriages (St Mary)' name on the left-hand side of the page? If there isn't a thumbnail link on the right, then the registers are not online.
As Geoff-E has already said, there are no post-1837 marriages online at LLTP. (Except for the odd parish where the 1813-1837 register has continued in use for a few extra years!)
LLTP have been refused permission (not by the churches) to put the marriages online.
I'm looking for a marriage with just a last name of Vickers (poss Hullett) and hopeing her father is Horace, married at Barton on Humber 1956 (or a year either side and yes i know it's a long shot) i know the marriage happened 'cause i was there, but i was very young. lol
Any help and i would be most grateful.
Sue
The GRO Index for 1954-1958, Scunthorpe registration district (the district for Barton on Humber) has female Vickers marrying Chafer, Hartley, Whaley, Stanley, and Shipley.
FreeREG has the marriages for Barton on Humber St Peters transcribed to 1967, and there's no Vickers marriages c1956 there, so the marriage must have been at St Marys. If it was in a CofE church.
If it was St Marys, for a smallish fee Lincolnshire Archives will send you a photocopy of the marriage entry in the PR, but you might need to know the date. Worth asking them.
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Hi Pam, it sure is another "high 5", In the last week, ive found loads of stuff at Waltham for Suddaby's, just want to thank you for pointing me in the right direction on Lincs to the Past. One more thing tho, when i put Louth in it doesn't come up as just Louth it says Raithby (Louth) can you tell me what i'm doing wrong there please.
Thank's for the info on Vickers i'll keep looking.
Sue
:D
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Hi Sue :)
You might get less superfluous stuff if you search
Louth St James PAR1
There are two Raithbys, so one is given the description (Louth) for distinguishing purposes ... and it'll show up if "Louth" is a search term.
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Thank's Geoff, that worked, i'm most gratefull to you all for the help ive been given and think now i have the hang of how the site works ;D
Thank's Sue.
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If you download the "Help" PDF it shows you what to input for each parish.
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One more thing tho, when i put Louth in it doesn't come up as just Louth it says Raithby (Louth) can you tell me what i'm doing wrong there please.
Sue :D
What you're doing wrong is entering the incorrect parish name. :)
Yes, I know it sounds stupid, but not only are there quite a lot of towns/villages in Lincolnshire with the same name you also have places with more than one parish in them (e.g. Lincoln) so you have to be specific which church you mean.
Go to the help section, and click 'How to search parish registers'.
At the bottom of the download there's a list of the correct parish names to use when you search. Note that there are two Raithbys - one near Louth and one near Spilsby - and that Louth has three churches for you to choose from.
Lincs Archives have a list of the PRs and BTs they hold.
http://tinyurl.com/2u8fhqh
And I also find the list of Lincolnshire parishes on Genuki very useful.
www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LIN/parishes.html
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Ah, that's where i was going wrong, ive downloaded that and all is crystal clear now, so thanks Redroger,Pam and Geoff, you're all star's x