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Title: Bedfordshire & Buckinghamshire Parish Registers
Post by: rebeccaclaire86 on Friday 18 August 23 07:59 BST (UK)
Out of curiosity, does anyone know if digitisation of the Bedfordshire or Buckinghamshire parish registers is in the pipeline by Ancestry, FindMyPast or anyone? I know there are some good transcriptions from the family history societies, but it’s not quite the same as the images!
Title: Re: Bedfordshire & Buckinghamshire Parish Registers
Post by: DavidG02 on Friday 18 August 23 15:26 BST (UK)
Its been a while but I'm sure FindmyPast has Bedfordshire records.

I accessed a shedload a few years ago when I found some spare coin in my pockets and got a subscription
Title: Re: Bedfordshire & Buckinghamshire Parish Registers
Post by: rebeccaclaire86 on Friday 18 August 23 16:38 BST (UK)
There are some transcriptions of Bedfordshire records on FindMyPast but not the images; the Hertfordshire ones are on there though.

I know that Ancestry is putting the Cambridgeshire records online before the end of the year, and are digitising Suffolk also, was hoping that Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire might be in the pipeline too.
Title: Re: Bedfordshire & Buckinghamshire Parish Registers
Post by: coombs on Friday 18 August 23 16:49 BST (UK)
Some Bucks records are on FindMyPast, no images but some are taken from bishops transcripts so the witnesses to the 1754 onwards marriage may not be included for some parishes. But have seen them for others. Marsh Gibbon is a parish of interest for my Smith lot.
Title: Re: Bedfordshire & Buckinghamshire Parish Registers
Post by: StevenG on Saturday 19 August 23 11:24 BST (UK)
I know that Ancestry is putting the Cambridgeshire records online before the end of the year, and are digitising Suffolk also, was hoping that Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire might be in the pipeline too.
Does Cambridgeshire include Huntingdonshire?

The most recent Bedfordshire Archives Annual Report says
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Preliminary discussions were held with the three major online publishers of family history material over
a possible digitisation project and survey work was carried out by our conservator in relation to this.
It's very vague!
Title: Re: Bedfordshire & Buckinghamshire Parish Registers
Post by: rebeccaclaire86 on Saturday 19 August 23 12:13 BST (UK)
Not sure about Huntingdonshire sorry, I do hope so!

That is vague, but sounds promising that it’s on the cards :)