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Family History Beginners Board / Re: familiar with parish records? I'd love to hear from you!
« on: Monday 19 May 14 13:25 BST (UK) »
yes, that's correct in many cases. Ultimately each parish does own its own records, so one thing I'm doing is trying to figure out how those contracts work. Our goal is to improve it all a bit with some central standardization on the church side, how we do that is TBC 
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My understanding is that Parish Records are deposited at various County Archives who by & large have contracts with one or other of the big online Genealogy Co's & as the records are owned by the C of E they would have to be co-partners so I'm not sure how the C of E go about releasing the whole collection to a third party for digitalization for online access without being in breach of contract.
Maybe you can give us your thoughts on that.
jim