ERO going Pay-to-Browse for online PRs etc

[findem]

Hi Ringrose,

The ERO have stated that they plan to put the Non Conformist registers online at a later date.

Currently most, if not all, Non Com registers are on Micro Film, which means they can only be viewed at the ERO.

I'm eagerly waiting for the Coggeshall Congregational registers to go online, I have an IGI sourced marriage that I'm dying to verify, I'll just have to be patient. 

As for Halstead Holy Trinity the ERO have on Micro Fiche: baptisms 1844 to 1967, marriages 1844 to 1947 & burials 1844 to 1978, Marriage Transcripts 1844 to 1865.  This info comes from a printed ERO guide I bought at the ERO several years ago on a trip to the UK, it was printed in 2004.

Regards.

[Diblet]

Well I took the plunge this morning and shelled out £75 for an annual subscription.

Much to my happiness it all went through without a hitch and I spent 4 solid hours trawling through various parish registers.

I had to surgically remove myself from the computer in order to eat my tea!

Definitely the best investment I have made on a damp gloomy November day.

 

[smudwhisk]

Well I took the plunge this morning and shelled out £75 for an annual subscription.

Much to my happiness it all went through without a hitch and I spent 4 solid hours trawling through various parish registers.

I had to surgically remove myself from the computer in order to eat my tea!

Definitely the best investment I have made on a damp gloomy November day.

 

Did the same at the weekend, so far have spent quite a few merry hours trawling through the registers.   This, accompanied by a marriage that now appears on Boyds index on FindMyPast but never appeared when I looked when it was on origins.net, and now I have a new line to look for as a brickwall has been demolished ... just now need to find the baptism.  It's definately worth the money for anyone with a number of lines in the county and who doesn't live close enough to get there regularly to visit.

[Lisajj]

Is there a list of what we can actually view once we have paid? I only want to view about 4 parishes.

[ribbo39]

Hi Lisajj,

If you go to their site (http://seax.essexcc.gov.uk/EssexAncestors.asp) and then select the letter
of the parish your interested in, then wait and choose the parish, and select the name of the church you will then be presented with a list of records. Those which have digital images listed
should then be available to view but of course now you have to take a subscription first.

Hope this helps you.

Alan

[Lisajj]

thanks Alan
looks like all the ones I want are still only on microfiche :-(
Ah well, I either wait and save money or trek to Essex then.

[Thomas Barrett]

Hi all, just started using SEAX having discovered  about it on Rootschat. I do have a lot of ancestors in Essex so I thought I'd give it a go.

After having trouble downloading I phoned the RO and they talked me through downloading an image.

They got me to right click then choose 'copy' rather than 'save' (as I had been trying) and then 'paste' into word (though I pasted straight into photoshop to edit).

Seems to work perfectly.

[geno500]

welcome Thomas great that you have found the site just as alot of the records from the ERO are online I was at the records today and they say they have almost completed the few problems that occurred with the site,it would seem they have enough time to talk you through your problem ,we have talked about the saving of images before Thomas ,it is all about the IE 7 if you can use Opera or Google Chrome you can save yourself  alot of bother, still ERO came up with a way to help you,I wish you well in your search.

[Eyesee]

Saving images with Firefox works fine. Get an error with IE.

Had to use IE to buy a subscription though as FF did not like that site.

Looked at some Barking images, and they are quite small compared to the others I looked at for Broomfield. Can hardly read them, even on a big screen.

Ian C