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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Leicestershire => Topic started by: TonyV on Tuesday 17 January 17 16:09 GMT (UK)
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Hi everyone
There's been no fanfare (that I've seen) but lots of Leicestershire records are now on FindMyPast. Yipee!
I've already broken down a brick wall and taken one ancestral line back 3 generations.
Tony
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Is there a list of which parish records are available?
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Fantastic - I knew they were coming, and supposedly this month ;D ;D
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That's great news. Thanks for letting us know. ;D
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That's my evening sorted then !
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Is there a list of which parish records are available?
Yes. If you do a search under L in records you can see them all and there is also a Browse link for all Leicestershire records which I've bookmarked for convenience.
Tony
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Woohoo at breaking that brick wall - and for the records now being online! ;D Thanks for the heads up!
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Is there a list of which parish records are available?
Yes. If you do a search under L in records you can see them all and there is also a Browse link for all Leicestershire records which I've bookmarked for convenience.
Tony
My sub has expired- will I be able to find this info without a sub? I had a quick look but couldn't find anything and I don't want to take out another subscription unnecessarily!
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Hi everyone
There's been no fanfare (that I've seen) but lots of Leicestershire records are now on FindMyPast. Yipee!
I've already broken down a brick wall and taken one ancestral line back 3 generations.
Tony
Yes I have been downloading Records for the last two days every spare minute I have.Wills, Obligation, Inventories, Marriage licences, banns, as well as the run of the mill baptism, marriages & burials.
Some of which I have on microfiche, some I transcribed in the 60 & 70s some photocopied, some I paid to be scanned at the record office and even a few which I have not seen before.
One that really made my evening today, was a transcription of the nuncupative will of Edward Guy of 1676; I have not seen that for over 40 years and now I have a copy in my possesion rather than a transcript my grandfather made at the end of the 19th century.
These newly digitised records not only record my ancestors lives and deaths but also in a way bring to life my grandfather's and indeed my own past research in the Leicestershire Record Office so many years ago.
I must admit to have undergone a range of mixed emotions over the last two days as long forgotton memories are stirred from their sleep.
The records from that one Record Office track my mother's paternal lineage from the 1950s when my grandfather died back to the 1450s and my 11th Great Grandfather Robert Gye.
They have not all been digitised yet, I have a number on microfiche that I have not yet found in the digital records, but that could be due to the condition the originals are in (some of the fiche are almost too dark to read) so you can imagine what the originals must be like today.
Cheers
Guy
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My cup runneth over ;D ;D ;D
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Just an alert to newcomers to downloading wills etc., always check the next image by clicking the right arrow on the right of the screen even when the will (or document) seems complete.
There may be a codicil, or inventory or further information such as further details of executors (which may "prove" family links).
I check all the pages that follow until they change to a new name.
Cheers
Guy
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Guy
So far I've only attacked the BMD elements and I may not have much to find in Wills etc because my forebears were mainly from Northants. However, I had a look and there doesn't seem to be any way to search Wills other than randomly opening digitised books then laboriously trawling through hundreds of pages of faint handwriting. Do you have some masterclass advice on how to do it better?
cheers
Tony
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So far I've only attacked the BMD elements and I may not have much to find in Wills etc because my forebears were mainly from Northants. However, I had a look and there doesn't seem to be any way to search Wills other than randomly opening digitised books then laboriously trawling through hundreds of pages of faint handwriting.
There are both browse and search options for the Leicestershire Wills. If you search Leicestershire in the A-Z of Record Sets its at the bottom of the list.
One thing I noticed is that not all the parish register entries on a page have been indexed. I was looking for two marriages in 1755 and 1766 in Great Casterton (Rutland) which I know exist from the LRFHS transcripts but couldn't find them through the search function so searched on the year and parish and went browsing to find them. I did noticed though that a couple of years are missing from the digitised registers for the parish unfortunately. :-\ Checked subsequent pages and it jumps a couple of years.
I cancelled my automatic renewal in October for FindMyPast (having been a subscriber since they first introduced subs and had previously used credits on 1837Online) because wasn't using the site sufficiently to justify renewal and was waiting for the Leicestershire & Rutland PRs to appear. I did take up their £1 for 1 month offer at the end of December so will be making good use of it for the next couple of weeks. ;D
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One thing I noticed is that not all the parish register entries on a page have been indexed. I was looking for two marriages in 1755 and 1766 in Great Casterton (Rutland) which I know exist from the LRFHS transcripts but couldn't find them through the search function so searched on the year and parish and went browsing to find them.
I've just had the opposite experience & found a baptism that wasn't recorded on either of my transcripts (one from LRFHS and the other from Leicestershire Parish Registers), nor on LDS. I think I'm going to be on 'do not disturb' for quite some time ;D
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Guy
So far I've only attacked the BMD elements and I may not have much to find in Wills etc because my forebears were mainly from Northants. However, I had a look and there doesn't seem to be any way to search Wills other than randomly opening digitised books then laboriously trawling through hundreds of pages of faint handwriting. Do you have some masterclass advice on how to do it better?
cheers
Tony
No because then you will all be using it and slowing the server down so I won't be able to get on.
Seriously though
I enter through the search box and type Leicestershire into the Records Set box then click on the filters I want to apply (everything other than the Soldiers died set. I then type Nottinghamshire and then Lincolnshire as my ancestors are in that diamond above Melton up to the top of the county at Bottesford so some sneak into the counties either side.)
That way it filters by just those record sets.
If you just want wills just click on the Wills filters
Cheers
Guy
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Thanks Guy. I'll try later
cheers
Tony
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Everyone seems as happy as I am. Slowly scrolling through my Gibbins and variations. Have 5 days of my $1 sub to go so not sure what I will do. Am trying to compile a family record to try and bring everyone together, at least past 1770. Phew a lot of fun and excitement.
And puzzles.
I saw an entry where I think the vicar/curate must have had his sisters and brothers mixed up. In Hallaton, Edward Gibbins labourer married Thomasine Norfolke and (assumed) brother Henry married Ann Norfolke. Everything was going ok , recording baptisms to each couple until this
Now which way do I jump? I will assume the husband is correct and it should be Ann not Thomasine
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Everyone seems as happy as I am. Slowly scrolling through my Gibbins and variations. Have 5 days of my $1 sub to go so not sure what I will do. Am trying to compile a family record to try and bring everyone together, at least past 1770. Phew a lot of fun and excitement.
And puzzles.
I saw an entry where I think the vicar/curate must have had his sisters and brothers mixed up. In Hallaton, Edward Gibbins labourer married Thomasine Norfolke and (assumed) brother Henry married Ann Norfolke. Everything was going ok , recording baptisms to each couple until this
Now which way do I jump? I will assume the husband is correct and it should be Ann not Thomasine
It is possible the vicar/curate made the mistake as you say.
There is a marriage (by Banns) of Henri Gibbins to Tomasine at the foot of the same page on October 28.
Possibly he remembered the name from the banns (jumping at straws here for a possible explanation)
Cheers
Guy
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Noticed there are loads of petcher family on and probably link into my tamworth ones! Noticed them yesterday.
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It is possible the vicar/curate made the mistake as you say.
There is a marriage (by Banns) of Henri Gibbins to Tomasine at the foot of the same page on October 28.
Possibly he remembered the name from the banns (jumping at straws here for a possible explanation)
Cheers
Guy
Thank you Guy. I shall re-check.
Always good to have another lot of eyes on it.
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Annie.....
Does that mean you can find my William Simpkin's death between 1830 and 1841 now?!?!
Ha Ha Ha......
bitzar.
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It is possible the vicar/curate made the mistake as you say.
There is a marriage (by Banns) of Henri Gibbins to Tomasine at the foot of the same page on October 28.
Possibly he remembered the name from the banns (jumping at straws here for a possible explanation)
Cheers
Guy
Thank you Guy. I shall re-check.
Always good to have another lot of eyes on it.
Not so much another set of eyes David but the result of a lifetime of searching in parish registers.
I got into the habit of checking many pages either side of the records I was seeking as family names often cropped up. In later marriages family members may appear as witnesses to unconnected people, possibly because they were at the church for their banns to be read etc.
Before we had the luxury of on line access to records researchers would browse through pages and pages of microfiche images or in earlier days the registers themselves to find a specific event, as we did with the census.
It is one of the drawbacks of the instant access on line provision that browsing records is seldom done these days.
For instance I was browsing a page that I had accessed yesterday and I came across the entry of a burial of a vagrant from Yorkshire who was travelling to London with a pass but had died and been buried in Lincolnshire.
It is these entries that give additional details that are the attraction of parish registers to me.
Cheers
Guy