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Post by white on Jul 6, 2011 8:37:42 GMT -5
Be aware that original parish records are back on family search org.
Hopefully the start of all being reinstated.
Roy ;D
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Post by marychown on Jul 6, 2011 9:10:37 GMT -5
Hello Roy, please can you remind me how to access the original parish records as I've forgotten how to get into them. Many thanks
Mary
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Post by londoner on Jul 6, 2011 10:23:44 GMT -5
via the new Family Search site - browse collection - Europe- UK Cornwall. mostly post 1870 marriages at the moment.
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Post by marychown on Jul 6, 2011 10:43:59 GMT -5
Many thanks for the reminder of how to access the Cornish records, Roy.
All the best,
Mary
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Post by donne on Jul 10, 2011 3:14:10 GMT -5
Well done, Roy, that's well spotted. At the moment, the registers on line are a shadow of the wealth of records which were snatched from under our noses, but as you say maybe it's the start of a full reinstatement.
Incidentally I came across the following interesting snippet appended by the vicar of St Erth to the marriage of John Williams and Sarah Ann Grenfell 30 June 1872 "Sarah Ann Grenfell was a person who had been married without religious rites at a registry office - and was divorced in a civil court - I therefore married her in Church to John Williams, as her first so called marriage had not received the sanction of the Church". I'd always thought that divorce was rare in those days and only for the upper classes.
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Post by Cornish Terrier on Jul 10, 2011 3:56:19 GMT -5
And I found an interesting entry in another register although I did not note all the details at the time.  The Vicar entered a note about one particular marriage stating that the Groom was divorced and he (the Vicar) had refused to marry him again in the Church as his first wife was still alive. The further point was one of protest stating that a Vicar from outside the Parish had interloped and performed the marriage! BTW - I do actually have that record but simply did not make any notes about it. |
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Post by donne on Jan 9, 2012 18:56:58 GMT -5
Just noted that a new batch was uploaded on 29 Dec 2011 - a very nice New Year present! I haven't checked it out in detail but it looks as though most of the registers have been restored to the site.
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Post by Cornish Terrier on May 25, 2012 9:18:44 GMT -5
There have been some more changes to the FamilySearch site. Having just become used to finding the Cornwall and other UK records under 'British Isles' the link has been changed yet again! There is now a link called 'United Kingdom and Ireland' under which you will find all the records that were, until yesterday, found under 'British Isles'.  But there is yet another change! Although the 'Go To Previous Site' button is currently still available you can now access the 'International Genealogical Index (IGI)' via the 'United Kingdom and Ireland' link. (Very last option) You can also access the IGI from within the 'United States' link. In fact it appears that a link to IGI has been placed in all the Regional Collections. CT |
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Post by sue on Sept 27, 2012 12:07:10 GMT -5
I see FamilySearch has today added/updated a collection that may be relevant to Cornish researchers:
England, Plymouth and West Devon, Parish Registers, 1538-1912
So far each of the 1700s Curnows I wanted to know about has had no additional info when I've clicked on the record, but others may have better luck in their searches.
Sue
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Post by Cornish Terrier on Sept 27, 2012 13:37:34 GMT -5
Very good Sue .......... but no mention of all the Welsh Registers that have also been added? Or have you lost interest in the Curnows in Wales?  CT |
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Post by sue on Sept 27, 2012 14:33:52 GMT -5
Well clearly! ;D Not being as methodical as you, I hadn't scrolled down beyond England Collections this afternoon!!  I shall have to think of some creative mispellings for Curnows in Wales in those early years I'm after....... Sue |
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Post by donne on Oct 1, 2012 3:07:16 GMT -5
Worth having but it's not really surprising that this is a filtered version of the information you have to pay for on the subscription site Findmypast. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to provide precise parish information any more than you can get by searching the index on Findmypast, which you can do free of charge.
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