Hi, All the recent discussion re FreeBMD transcriptions prompted me to look again at a similar problem I had a while ago - I had a baptism from IGI for Jesse Winkworth on 29 September 1945 at Oare, Berkshire (parents David and Emma) which looked OK in relation to the 1851 Census showing Jesse aged 5 in Newbury Union Workhouse, but could not find a birth registration. Eventually I found the registration in Oct-Nov-Dec 1845 by browsing the indexes on findmypast.com. It looks as if this page has been missed on FreeBMD as I have tried searching for some other names on the page through FreeBMD without success. However - this is NOT meant to be a moan about FreeBMD - they have given us a marvellous resource for which I am most grateful. I guess it's just a case of 'no-one's perfect'. Anyway, finding Jesse Winkworth's birth certificate is not the end of my problems. While his baptism is given on IGI as 29 September 1845, the date of his birth is given on the certificate as 2 October 1845. As I don't really think pre-natal baptism is very likely I suspect this is an error in the IGI transcription (though I suppose Jesse's mother could have got the date wrong when registering the birth in Novemer 1845). Is there some kind person who could check the Oare parish records for me and perhaps solve this conundrum? If so I'd be most grateful. Veronica

FreeBMD do like cases of missing pages reported to them, so that they can get them into the system. I think the email address is somewhere on the 'information' pages. --- On Wed, 7/10/09, Vronia15@aol.com <Vronia15@aol.com> wrote: > From: Vronia15@aol.com <Vronia15@aol.com> > Subject: [BRK] Baptism before birth? > To: BERKSHIRE@rootsweb.com > Date: Wednesday, 7 October, 2009, 10:45 AM > Hi, > All the recent discussion re FreeBMD transcriptions > prompted me to look  > again at a similar problem I had a while ago - I had a > baptism from IGI for  > Jesse Winkworth on 29 September 1945 at Oare, Berkshire > (parents David and > Emma)  which looked OK in relation to the 1851 Census > showing Jesse aged 5 in  > Newbury Union Workhouse, but could not find a birth > registration. > Eventually I  found the registration in Oct-Nov-Dec > 1845 by browsing the indexes on  > findmypast.com. It looks as if this page has been missed on > FreeBMD as I > have  tried searching for some other names on the page > through FreeBMD without  > success. However - this is NOT meant to be a moan about > FreeBMD - they have > given us a marvellous resource for which I am most > grateful. I guess it's > just a  case of 'no-one's perfect'. > > Anyway, finding Jesse Winkworth's birth certificate is not > the end of my  > problems. While his baptism is given on IGI as 29 September > 1845, the date of > his birth is given on the certificate as 2 October 1845. > As I don't really > think  pre-natal baptism is very likely I suspect this > is an error in the > IGI  transcription (though I suppose Jesse's mother > could have got the date > wrong  when registering the birth in Novemer 1845). Is > there some kind person > who could  check the Oare parish records for me and > perhaps solve this > conundrum? If so I'd  be most grateful. > > Veronica > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BERKSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the > subject and the body of the message >

If you look at the coverage graphs for freeBMD you will see that the last quater of 1845 is about 98% completer. Since the records are probably dealt with alphabetically it is likey tha t the page for Winkworth is still to be transcribed. Perhaps you should recheck FreeBMD in a few months. Regards Peter Goggin On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 05:45 -0400, Vronia15@aol.com wrote: > Hi, > All the recent discussion re FreeBMD transcriptions prompted me to look > again at a similar problem I had a while ago - I had a baptism from IGI for > Jesse Winkworth on 29 September 1945 at Oare, Berkshire (parents David and > Emma) which looked OK in relation to the 1851 Census showing Jesse aged 5 in > Newbury Union Workhouse, but could not find a birth registration. > Eventually I found the registration in Oct-Nov-Dec 1845 by browsing the indexes on > findmypast.com. It looks as if this page has been missed on FreeBMD as I > have tried searching for some other names on the page through FreeBMD without > success. However - this is NOT meant to be a moan about FreeBMD - they have > given us a marvellous resource for which I am most grateful. I guess it's > just a case of 'no-one's perfect'. > > Anyway, finding Jesse Winkworth's birth certificate is not the end of my > problems. While his baptism is given on IGI as 29 September 1845, the date of > his birth is given on the certificate as 2 October 1845. As I don't really > think pre-natal baptism is very likely I suspect this is an error in the > IGI transcription (though I suppose Jesse's mother could have got the date > wrong when registering the birth in Novemer 1845). Is there some kind person > who could check the Oare parish records for me and perhaps solve this > conundrum? If so I'd be most grateful. > > Veronica > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BERKSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message