Suffolk parish registers to go online?

[coombs]

We can also look at marriage witnesses for 1754 onwards marriages. Prior to civil reg debuting in 1837, witnesses are fundamental, often they were relatives but a huge chunk were friends, neighbours, church officials, and so on, as we know.

[MollyC]

An item in the Genealogy Gazette received today (Society of Genealogists) says 14 August.  Refers to https://www.suffolkarchives.co.uk/latest-news-from-suffolk-archives/
which confirms that date.

[coombs]

Excellent news. I am also liking the new Cambs records, as several of my Essex and some West Suffolk ancestors moved to/from Cambridgeshire.

Yesterday I was at my local affiliate library where you can access many Suffolk records through FamilySearch although many of them are scans of original Suffolk wills and poor law records, but they are an excellent resource and seem to be quite fulsome.

[Old Bristolian]

Suffolk RO now saying August 8th as a launch date

[Trevor Rix]

Also see https://www.suffolk.gov.uk/council-and-democracy/council-news/from-parish-pews-to-pixels

[Trevor Rix]

And https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9N-0dnKGlH4

[jonwicken]

It seems strange this release is being called "Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich" and not Suffolk.

Apparently this diocese does not include an area of North East Suffolk around Lowestoft.

I wonder what happens to the records in this missing part of Suffolk then? Does anyone please know?

[Lewis21]

It seems strange this release is being called "Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich" and not Suffolk.

Apparently this diocese does not include an area of North East Suffolk around Lowestoft.

I wonder what happens to the records in this missing part of Suffolk then? Does anyone please know?

At least some of these are included with the Norfolk collection on Ancestry, e.g. Lowestoft, Kirkley. I assume they were part of that diocese rather than Ipswich or St Edmundsbury.

[MollyC]

Ancestry muddles along, naming collections after the record office from which they obtained them rather than placing parishes under the historic county where they lay.  They use modern county names as if they were historic, which must cause confusion especially to researchers from outside GB.