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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Lancashire => Topic started by: stonechat on Saturday 05 January 13 23:11 GMT (UK)
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From MLFHS Facebook page
Parish Registers go online
Manchester City Archives is the Diocesan Record Office for the Diocese of
Manchester (Church of England). The Diocese of Manchester covers the
Majority of Greater Manchester including Manchester, Salford, Bolton, Bury,
Oldham, Rochdale, Leigh, Newchurch, Stretford and Old Trafford, and Ashton
under Lyne.
All our Church of England parish registers of baptisms (up to 1915),
Marriages (up to 1930) and burials will be published online at
Ancestry.co.uk in early February. Over 6,000,000 records have been digitised
and name indexed. It also includes the parish registers for Manchester
Cathedral. Free access to Ancestry.co.uk is available at any Manchester City
Council library. We hope to add non-conformist church registers for Greater
Manchester later on in the year.
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;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D Excellent!
Milly
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That will be fantastic as I have a lot of family research to do in Bolton.
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Great news.
Regards
William Russell Jones.
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Fantastic News! ;D ;D ;D
I have loads of ancestors in the Manchester, Salford, Stretford, Ardwick & Hulme areas. This will be extremely useful indeed!
Kind regards
David
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It is good news, but I have to confess, I feel a bit - I don't know, deflated? - as I've been the last two years transcribing Manchester records for Lancs OPC!
Don't forget us at the OPC, we're still totally free! :D :D and some records go past 1930 as well
http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/
:) Barbara
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And what a wonderful job you have been doing!
Thank you.
Heather :)
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It is good news, but I have to confess, I feel a bit - I don't know, deflated? - as I've been the last two years transcribing Manchester records for Lancs OPC!
Don't forget us at the OPC, we're still totally free! :D :D and some records go past 1930 as well
http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/
:) Barbara
Well thanks Barbara and don't forget that user transcriptions are always better than commercial websites!
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Stonechat, thanks for the info - I'm not an Ancestry subscriber, but can see that it may be worth taking out a sub, going like the clappers & then cancelling - I've done a free trial so can't go that route.
FamilySearch already has a Lancashire collection that includes images for many churches in Greater Manchester - not comprehensive, but free:
https://www.familysearch.org/search/image/index#uri=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.familysearch.org%2Frecords%2Fwaypoint%2FMMGS-4GG%3An2105642381%3Fcc%3D1788853
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Good I"m looking for a ancestors death (seems to have disappeared)
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Oh good, I might be able to sort out my m.i.l's brother. Neither my husband nor his brother knew he existed until I found him on the 1901 and 1911 census. I think he married in 1916, but would love to see the parish register to see who the witnesses were. Barbara H - I've already looked on Lancs-OPC but the marriage is not there. There's one of a man with the same name, but the father is wrong.
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:) being from Salford a lot of my research is centred around Manchester so this will be great.