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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Essex => Topic started by: kmart66 on Monday 01 October 12 10:04 BST (UK)
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Hi
Does anyone know when the rest of the parish records will be updated with later entries, ie parishes starting with letters from the latter part of the alphabet, or are they holding back till the first anniversity of the start of subsciptions so they can get another years fee?
Kevin
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I'm wondering that too. Brightlingsea is my only parish which benefits!
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Hi,
Probably best to email the Essex Reords Office and get the info straight from the horse's mouth.
Regards.
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I think it's a really good idea though to digitise all these records. I wish other counties would do it too. I wonder if it was a project which they ran out of money for, hence why there's no scans of recent registers for parishes further down the alphabet?
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I paid for amonth in the initial stages but found so few of my parishes done that I have done nothing since.
Would be interested to find if any more have been added.If so I would take out another month.
Rongrose
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You can see the ones that have been done by looking at the parish and the "digital images". Which parishes were you interested in?
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Thanks ..will do that. Im interestedin Halstead,Purleigh.Woodham Walter,Little Baddow.Boreham,THough some from these ares have been done they arent always in mt search dates.
Ringrose
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I paid for a day subscription. Then the site crashed and kept coming up with "error". £ 5 wasted. I would advise anyone who wants to look on Seax to only pay for a day or it could prove expensive.
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Surely thy must realise that their site crashed and give you another day of your choice.Have you approached SEAX to see if they will do this for you.
It does put you off subscribing if you lose outto something which isn't your fault.
Ringrose
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Yeah, I'd recommend you contact them cos they should be aware of times when their site's gone down.
I'm on it every day, more or less! And it does have its moments... for about an hour yesterday it wouldn't load images, but then it behaved again. It's definitely been worth £75 to me. It sounds like a lot, but I have so many family in Essex, and was born there too, so it's fab. I'd LOVE it if Suffolk did the same thing.
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Agree....something like that for Suffolk
Ringrose
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I was hoping that other county record offices would see how Essex RO had their parish records online and would think it a good idea to copy.
My annual £75 subs. expires next week and I'll be re-newing it straight away. It's been worth every penny for me, although I was hoping more would have been added by now.
:)
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It's odd that Essex is apparently unique in doing this. You'd think, with the drive for digital preservation, that there'd be more people doing this.
The digitised wills are quite good too, although more, like with the parish registers, would be good too!
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You should find that your subscription has been credited for any time that Seax was down.
The good news is that the update of Seax will begin this month and be completed by mid December, also the Waltham Forest area register's are going to by added in 2013.
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Any idea which ares are being updated.
Ringrose
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Fab news! Yes, where can we find out which places and what years are being updated?
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Fab news! Yes, where can we find out which places and what years are being updated?
Probably by manually checking each parish through the normal route. You don't have to be subscribed to do this.
I hope the Waltham Forest Archives parishes do appear on SEAX as need to view quite a few of them. Hopefully they'll digitise some more Wills in due course. I've been holding off ordering some but I may have to bite the bullet now and pay for a paper copy. I had heard rumours the remaining Wills would probably be the last to be uploaded but who knows.
It's definately been worth the money, a few brickwalls have fallen. Hopefully when FindMyPast get the Hertfordshire PRs online a few more brickwalls will fall since some seem to be floating between counties rather a lot. ::)
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Hi,
I'd be over the moon if the ERO would digitise the Essex Boyd's Marriage Index and put it on the SEAX system, it would be so great to be able to have access to it. I suspect something of that nature is way down on the ERO's priorities though, so the Index on SEAX probably won't happen in my lifetime, not enough years left :( ;D.
Regards.
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Hi,
I'd be over the moon if the ERO would digitise the Essex Boyd's Marriage Index and put it on the SEAX system, it would be so great to be able to have access to it. I suspect something of that nature is way down on the ERO's priorities though, so the Index on SEAX probably won't happen in my lifetime, not enough years left :( ;D.
Regards.
Boyd's Indexes are owned by the Society of Genealogists as Percival Boyd was one of their founding members. They're available to member's on the SOG's website but are also on FindMyPast. I'd be very surprised if they would ever appear on SEAX. In any case, it's not particularly good for Essex anyway, far better for Suffolk and Norfolk.
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This may be of help to others.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~boydsindex/Boydsindex.htm
Cobbs.
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Hi Smudwisk,
Boyd's might not have the Essex coverage one would wish for but it's better than nothing, especially in the case where the location of a couple's marriage is not found where it was expected to be. I have used it at the ERO during trips to the UK and I've had quite a few successes.
My Dalton line has it's origins in Norfolk but to date I don't have a single Suffolk line, nearly did but it turned out to be a false lead ::) ;D
Regards
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Hi Findem
You've been lucky then as I've only found a couple of marriages for Essex for the various lines we have there, but quite a lot in Suffolk. Several of the Essex lines originated in Suffolk. Mind you it's not foolproof even when it covers the period for the parish as we've found the odd marriage that doesn't turn up on it whatever variation you choose. I think also the online versions have additional errors/ommissions as when it moved from Origins to FindMyPast I found a marriage that had been a brickwall for several years. I've only used the original books in the SOG library on the odd occasion as don't get there that often, so it's possible may find more. ::) Had the same issue in Herts mind you with the online marriage index on the RO website. ;D
I think Boyds outside of Suffolk and Norfolk is very hit and miss, sometimes you get lucky, most of the time possibly not. With Phillimores and other indexes, though, it's a useful finding aid. ;)
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There is another Marriage index that complements Boyds, used together they have an almost complete coverage for Essex between 1754 and 1851, the Jack Baxter marriage index can only be seen at the Society of Genealogists or the Essex Record Office, for details of coverage see: http://sturnidae.com/Essex/Marriages.htm
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There is another Marriage index that complements Boyds, used together they have an almost complete coverage for Essex between 1754 and 1851, the Jack Baxter marriage index can only be seen at the Society of Genealogists or the Essex Record Office, for details of coverage see: http://sturnidae.com/Essex/Marriages.htm
Yes I've used it in the past. Unfortunately most of the marriages I've had trouble finding have been before that date. ::)
I wasn't aware there was a copy at the SOG though, Jack Baxter as far as I knew was the only person provided search services from it.
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Hi,
The Jack Baxter Marriage Index is in book form and is on the shelves at the ERO, I have used it quite a few times or though not for a few years, in fact it had slipped my memory until Elmo mentioned them. If my memory serves me correct the marriages are grouped in parish order.
He also runs a search facility for his Marriage Index, I think the cost used to be 50p for members of the Essex SFH and one pound for a non member, the address is (or was) on the ESFH site.
Regards.
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I asked ERO what they're updating and this is their reply:
"The forthcoming update (mid-November to mid-December) will cover all the remaining registers of baptisms, marriages and burials held here, with the exception as before of marriage registers post-dating 1957. It will not include any wills: we are still copying the remaining pre-1720 wills and we do not yet know when this project will be completed."
;D
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That's brilliant news! I love the word "ALL"!!!!
Looking forward to opening up all those goldmines of information.
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