ERO going Pay-to-Browse for online PRs etc

[Siamese Girl]

I haven't signed up yet. I really wanted to trawl through a few wills but it doesn't appear that they have put any more wills on than weren't there already when it was free to view.

Carole

[findem]

Hi,

Noting the time frame of marriages being searched for, I'm wondering if the below mentioned marriage index may be of use to someone, here is the link.

http://www.sturnidae.com/Essex/Marriages.htm

It is the Jack Baxter's ESSEX MARRIAGE INDEX, it covers the years 1754 to 1851 and is intended to augment coverage by Boyd's, the site has an index attached which shows the parishes covered plus the years covered in each parish.

For those of you who cannot get in to the ERO the link above gives the address and the fee which is one UK pound per marriage and a stamped self addressed envelope, the link gives methods of payments for overseas people. 

The index is also found in bound typewritten pages on the shelves at the ERO, free to view of course.

I have used the index service a number of times over the years and as I live in Australia found it very useful.

Regards.

[coombs]

I did track down the John Merritt marriage. It was in 1767 in Barling near Rochford. My mum and aunty and uncle grew up in Wakering and Barling. Sarah Davey was the bride but she was a widow.

[kmart66]

Hi

Saving images.....Well i've tried a couple of suggestions but with no success. Has anyone got any ideas please, i'm using Windows 7 and IE9. I know the easier option would be to install another browser but i wondered if it was possible with what i have got.

Kevin

[geno500]

Hi Kevin   there is a post on this thread where the ERO talked a guy through the problem of saving images with IE it was a bit long winded but it worked for him,without doubt the best way is to install either Google Chrome which is much faster than IE or Opera or Firefox to name a few,the problem seems to have started with IE7,it only takes a short time to download Chrome and I use it just for the ERO site,another guy on here uses Firefox with no problem and I used Opera before I used Chrome only changing because it was so much faster ,the posting was november 10th the ERO said to right click and then click copy and then into word,but he put it into photoshop to edit and it worked,best of luck

[kmart66]

Hi Geno

Thanks for that, i did try copying to word however on images showing both pages it would not show both of them completely, i even tried changing my page to landscape before but it still wouldn't show the complete image. Looks like i'll have to download google then.

Thanks again

Kevin

[mike175]

I would think you could change the page size in Word to, say, A3. Then it should fit, but you wouldn't be able to print it out on an A4 printer without re-sizing.

Mike.

[kmart66]

I would think you could change the page size in Word to, say, A3. Then it should fit, but you wouldn't be able to print it out on an A4 printer without re-sizing.

Mike.

Hi

Thanks for that Mike, didn't even cross my mind to try that.

Kevin

[Scrabble]

Just a suggestion, if you use Irfanview you could paste it into that, crop it if you want, save it as a jpeg and print it out any size you want from the print menu.

If you don't have Irfanview it is free to download a copy for personal use. I got mine from Tucows. I find it invaluable for cropping the black bits off from around the census images which saves ink when printing them out.