Lincs to the past

[ctrunfree]

I'm convinced the Lincs website was designed by a sadist…even if you can get past the bizarre search facility you have to wrestle with the very frustrating magnifying glass.  What a shame it hasn't been indexed properly, as there's probably good stuff in there.

If you are using Chrome just enlarge the print size on your page by using the zoom. I use 125% for normal pages and 250% for Lincs the Past , no problem then.
Bizarre search facility?? just put the place in the box with Baptism, marriage or burial and look at the pages it brings up, find the register you need that covers the dates you need and away you go...
. Much easier to sit at home and do it in comfort, than as we used to! Yes there is excellent "stuff" in them.
 I am thrilled with the site and only wish other counties would do it too.

Hi Larkspur..yes, I was having a bad day.  It would be great if more counties had the parish records readily available.  Having said that, how hard would it have been to get some volunteers to develop a name index for the records?  Unless you know a date and the right parish its pretty difficult to find anything. 

[larkspur]

The original books are not indexed, so I suppose it would have cost a fortune to do, Volunteers or not, plus imagine the scale of the job- all those books, all those Churches. I think it is great they are taking the time to photograph them. Part of the fun is in the discovery of a name you are looking for. Going back before the Interweb  it was the only way to search.
A Tip 
Have a look at free reg or family search for your named person, once you have it then go to Lincs and double check it.
http://www.freereg.org.uk/cgi/Search.pl
https://familysearch.org/search

[ctrunfree]

The original books are not indexed, so I suppose it would have cost a fortune to do, Volunteers or not, plus imagine the scale of the job- all those books, all those Churches. I think it is great they are taking the time to photograph them. Part of the fun is in the discovery of a name you are looking for. Going back before the Interweb  it was the only way to search.
A Tip 
Have a look at free reg or family search for your named person, once you have it then go to Lincs and double check it.
http://www.freereg.org.uk/cgi/Search.pl
https://familysearch.org/search

Yep, that's what I do.  Unfortunately many of my rels seem to be in Parishes that escaped the attention of both bodies.

[LizzieW]

I use Lincs to the Past frequently and have often found other ancestors whilst searching through the pages for the person I want.  I know it's not as easy as some sites, but at least it's free and as Larkspur said, it's easy enough to do sitting at home in comfort.

[FTFHA]

Not sure if this has been mentioned before, but all of the images are available on findmypast on a larger screen and without the watermark.

In some cases there is better coverage of some of the parishes, they have tried to group the books together, which makes some of the records a bit harder to search through, but I found paying £1 for months trial much easier than navigating the lincstothepast website and I now have the images to put with my records - just my two penneth :-)

[LizzieW]

FTFHA - I find the FindMyPast Lincs parish records very hard to search, there doesn't seem to be any pattern to the search and you can't search by name - well not last time I looked about a month ago.