On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:07:18 -0000, Chris Jefferies <chris.jefferies@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > On 3rd Jan 2011 "England, Bristol Parish Registers, 1538-1900" was added > to Family Search. It contains over 270,000 records indexed by volunteers > including me as part of the Bristol Parish Records project on Family > Search Indexing which was completed in December. > The big advantage these records have over FreeBMD is that for a marriage > you know exactly who married who and the names of the fathers and for a > christening you have the parents names. > Below is the search page:- > https://www.familysearch.org/s/collection/show#uri=http://search-api:8080/se > archapi/search/collection/1718965 Thank you very much for this information, Chris. I've only looked for three of my Bristol surnames so far and already have lots of information, which I didn't have have before, including the baptism of a great-uncle. It's well worth a look at these records. Anyone doing so could well be amazed. Let the list know if any great discoveries are made. Josephine -- Josephine Jeremiah www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com

Hi Josephine Hope this makes your inbox Tried this site. First search found the burial of my Samuel Beard, However tried to find it again and it took me 5 goes to get it to come up, It appears that the information you enter has to be specific It did not like Samuel Beard 1860 Bristol , tried without the date No: tried Bristol Gloucestershire with and without date, No: Tried Bristol Somerset without date then with date and Bingo. Regards Tony ----- Original Message ----- From: "Josephine Jeremiah" <jojeremiah@dsl.pipex.com> To: <bristol_and_somerset@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 10:55 PM Subject: Re: [B&S] Bristol Parish Records on Family Search > On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:07:18 -0000, Chris Jefferies > <chris.jefferies@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > >> On 3rd Jan 2011 "England, Bristol Parish Registers, 1538-1900" was added >> to Family Search. It contains over 270,000 records indexed by volunteers >> including me as part of the Bristol Parish Records project on Family >> Search Indexing which was completed in December. > >> The big advantage these records have over FreeBMD is that for a marriage >> you know exactly who married who and the names of the fathers and for a >> christening you have the parents names. > >> Below is the search page:- > >> https://www.familysearch.org/s/collection/show#uri=http://search-api:8080/se >> archapi/search/collection/1718965 > > Thank you very much for this information, Chris. I've only looked for > three of my Bristol surnames so far and already have lots of information, > which I didn't have have before, including the baptism of a great-uncle. > > It's well worth a look at these records. Anyone doing so could well be > amazed. > > Let the list know if any great discoveries are made. > > Josephine > > -- > Josephine Jeremiah > www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BRISTOL_AND_SOMERSET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

The records on line mainly seem to be for the city parishes but spread as far east as St George, as far north as Staplton and Wesbury on Trym, as far east as Shirehampton and as far south as Bedminster. However they don't cover all parishes within that area so I don't know if this is just the first batch or everything that was transcribed by the project. When doing a search I think it is best to leave "Place" blank as it seems very temperamental. In tests it found Brislington and Montpelier but not Clifton. Chris Jefferies Cheltenham Glos From: bristol_and_somerset-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:bristol_and_somerset-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Josephine Jeremiah Sent: 21 January 2011 22:56 To: bristol_and_somerset@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [B&S] Bristol Parish Records on Family Search On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:07:18 -0000, Chris Jefferies <chris.jefferies@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > On 3rd Jan 2011 "England, Bristol Parish Registers, 1538-1900" was added > to Family Search. It contains over 270,000 records indexed by volunteers > including me as part of the Bristol Parish Records project on Family > Search Indexing which was completed in December. > The big advantage these records have over FreeBMD is that for a marriage > you know exactly who married who and the names of the fathers and for a > christening you have the parents names. > Below is the search page:- < https://www.familysearch.org/s/collection/show#uri=http://search-api:8080/se archapi/search/collection/1718965> Thank you very much for this information, Chris. I've only looked for three of my Bristol surnames so far and already have lots of information, which I didn't have have before, including the baptism of a great-uncle. It's well worth a look at these records. Anyone doing so could well be amazed. Let the list know if any great discoveries are made. Josephine -- Josephine Jeremiah www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BRISTOL_AND_SOMERSET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _____ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1191 / Virus Database: 1435/3394 - Release Date: 01/21/11