ERO going Pay-to-Browse for online PRs etc

[coombs]

I use IrfanView as well. Use it a lot for cropping images.

I have downloaded about 20 images from Seax. Including the burial in Foulness of an ancestor in 1893 which I last looked at in the record office but ran out of time to get a copy now I have downloaded a copy with these new records.

[Diblet]

Now that it's been up and running for over a month, how's everybody getting on with Essex Ancestors?

I go in for a browse nearly every day and love having the freedom to dart from one parish to another. 

I've managed to find lots of useful baptisms, marriages and burials that have enabled me to fill in lots of loose bits on my tree.

It will be even better when more recent registers are put on. Well worth the annual sub. I took out already!!!!

 

[mike175]

I had a few days of intensive searching, having already exhausted most of the free stuff previously, and certainly found a lot more information in the newly digitised registers.

I'll keep checking back to see what's been added.

Definitely worth the money.

Mike.

[Siamese Girl]

I'll only be happy when they add the wills.

Carole

[findem]

Hi,

I haven't used it since it became Pay to View, been too busy Xmas shopping, card writing and putting up all the Xmas lights, after Xmas is over I'll be giving the system a flogging though.

I'm especially looking forward to the Non Com registers going online, there's a 1758 IGI baptism I'm itching to verify in the Coggeshall Ind register.  Also looking forward to the Wills, not sure what I'll find, if anything, a search would be interesting though.

Regards and a happy Xmas to you all 

[warncoort]

I bought a one day pass and trawled many parishes and came up with nothing,so my Essex lot are on the very back burner for a while,or forever!It was less than $10 so no great loss.

[Ringrose]

I took out a months sub and thankful that ai did not take out a year .I found a lot of useful stuff but many of the mid 1800s records have not been done in my areas of Halstead Purleigh and Woodham Walters.Colchester
I've just had a note from ERO asking how I'd got on and replied to say I was disappointed that there were so any records not there for me.They did reply by saying that they were hoping to add more as the months go by .I will leave it now for another few months before looking again.
I thinknI have enough paper work to sort through to keep me busy.
For anyone with records to research in Essex take a look first to see what is available .If your research is only partly covered I suggest amonth sub would be sufficient.
Ringrise

[Yorkslass]

Hi all,

I did just that Ringrose, but was miffed to find two of the Registers (one at Shoebury and one Southminster) that were supposed to have been digitised had the wrong images!  I found this out on the very first day it went online, and I'd bought my subscription.

ERO have apologised for the errors, and say they have been added to their list of "corrections to be done" but can't say when.

I'm a bit irritated, having taken out a 6 month subscription. Now I'm stuck with one branch (but have done well with another)

Yorkslass

[Scrabble]

I paid for another day yesterday, it ends at 11am this morning, but while searching registers I keep getting sent back to page one! This is very annoying when I have gone from page to page using the forward and back buttons and don't remember which page I was on! And no my curser was not near that double arrow at top left, it was actually somewhere at the bottom right of the page - can't figure out if I am doing something wrong or if it times out (I have got kicked off completely a couple of times yesterday too)

Must get back to searching for these Appletons, am glued to my seat until 11am...