-----Original Message----- From: Susan Moziar Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 12:58 AM To: bristol_and_somerset@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [B&S] LDS Family Search pilot project Edna, I can't complain after finding the record I wanted in Bristol. Now if they would just get the actual images ...... Susan -----Original Message----- From: liverpud Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 11:23 AM To: Bristol-Somerset List Subject: [B&S] LDS Family Search pilot project The LDS are working on a pilot project. Not too impressed so far.... http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html Edna - Ottawa ------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------- 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 __________ NOD32 5857 (20110208) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com
I think people are getting confused with FamilySearch.. There is the original website, but they now have a new website (same address). It has overtaken the pilot project. It's still possible to go back to the old website with the old IGI. Searching is tricky on their new site but searchers have access to a range of records, and sometimes images.. Bev ----- Original Message ----- From: "argus" <jocath@upnaway.com> To: <bristol_and_somerset@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 4:23 PM Subject: Re: [B&S] LDS Family Search pilot project > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Susan Moziar > Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 12:58 AM > To: bristol_and_somerset@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [B&S] LDS Family Search pilot project > > Edna, > I can't complain after finding the record I wanted in Bristol. Now if > they > would just get the actual images ...... > > Susan > > -----Original Message----- > From: liverpud > Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 11:23 AM > To: Bristol-Somerset List > Subject: [B&S] LDS Family Search pilot project > > > The LDS are working on a pilot project. > Not too impressed so far.... > > http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html > > Edna - Ottawa > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > __________ NOD32 5857 (20110208) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.eset.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
I have three tabs for the LDS on my browser's tool bar the original IGI http://www.familysearch.org/ENG/Search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=igi/search_IGI.asp&clear_form=true the family search pilot http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#start & the new family search site https://www.familysearch.org/ I find using the advanced search on the new family search site can give me much more controlled results than the original IGI site with it's idiosyncratic way of refusing to do the precise search I wanted. I now find Hugh Wallis's site is not now reflecting a true record of the only parishes. If on the new search you copy the "indexing project" number and paste it into batch number on the "old" IGI site you can with a region selected get a surname search. Mike in Droitwich my family tree http://mjfisher.tribalpages.com
Hugh Wallis's site was very useful as it gave people in insight into what was actually included in the IGI. I was once in contact with someone who claimed to have traced his Bristol family tree back the 1600s in only 6 weeks using only the IGI!!! Using Hugh's site you can see which parish data is included in the IGI and for the Bristol area the answer is VERY LITTLE. I think BRO were one of the last councils to allow LDS to film their registers in the late 1980s as I remember registers were "Unavailable" while they were filmed. I don't think that the actual IGI has been updated since around 1990 as new records were added to the VRI and certainly the Bristol parish records were never added. I don't think Hugh updated his site for quite a few years before his death. As I recently said many central Bristol parish registers 1837-1900 were added to Family Search a month ago as part of the Family Search Indexing Project. At the moment when you select a record of interest there is a square in the top left of the screen which says "No Image Available" but when the project is complete you will be able to view the original register entry. Chris Jefferies Cheltenham Glos From: bristol_and_somerset-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:bristol_and_somerset-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Mike in Droitwich Sent: 09 February 2011 09:20 To: bristol_and_somerset@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [B&S] LDS Family Search pilot project I have three tabs for the LDS on my browser's tool bar the original IGI http://www.familysearch.org/ENG/Search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=igi/search_I GI.asp <http://www.familysearch.org/ENG/Search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=igi/search_ IGI.asp&clear_form=true> &clear_form=true the family search pilot http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#start & the new family search site https://www.familysearch.org/ I find using the advanced search on the new family search site can give me much more controlled results than the original IGI site with it's idiosyncratic way of refusing to do the precise search I wanted. I now find Hugh Wallis's site is not now reflecting a true record of the only parishes. If on the new search you copy the "indexing project" number and paste it into batch number on the "old" IGI site you can with a region selected get a surname search. Mike in Droitwich my family tree http://mjfisher.tribalpages.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: 10.0.1204 / Virus Database: 1435/3431 - Release Date: 02/08/11
On Wed, 09 Feb 2011 09:20:07 -0000, Mike in Droitwich <mjflists@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > the family search pilot > http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#start Thank you, Mike. I've just clicked on this and found a daughter and son of my 3x great-grandparents, Henry Pearce MORRIS and his wife, Sarah (nee DREW), whom I didn't know about before. My MORRIS family was in Hotwells, Clifton at the time of the 1841, 1851, 1871 and 1881 censuses, but Henry Pearce MORRIS and his family spent some time in Ireland and Yorkshire in the 1860s. Presumably he was following his trade as a coach maker at this time. The daughter, I've found, was Emma, was born on 21st. August 1865 in Cork. Her mother's name is recorded correctly as Sarah DREW but Henry's middle name is spelt Pierce rather than Pearce, which is used on other documents. The son, I've found, was Frederick, who was baptized on 3rd. May 1873 at St. George's Church, Brandon Hill, Bristol. Emma doesn't appear in the 1871 Bristol census and Frederick doesn't appear in the 1881 Bristol census. I've just looked on FreeBMD. Emma may have died in Cork as I can't find a suitable death registration for her in England. However, there is a death registration for Frederick Pearce MORRIS, aged 8, in Bristol in the March quarter of 1880. So new information is cropping up all the time for me, when I am directed to different sites. Josephine -- Josephine Jeremiah www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com
I think people are getting confused with FamilySearch.. There is the original website, but they now have a new website (same address). It has overtaken the pilot project. It's still possible to go back to the old website with the old IGI. Searching is tricky on their new site but searchers have access to a range of records, and sometimes images.. Bev ----- Original Message ----- From: "argus" <jocath@upnaway.com> To: <bristol_and_somerset@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 4:23 PM Subject: Re: [B&S] LDS Family Search pilot project > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Susan Moziar > Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 12:58 AM > To: bristol_and_somerset@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [B&S] LDS Family Search pilot project > > Edna, > I can't complain after finding the record I wanted in Bristol. Now if > they > would just get the actual images ...... > > Susan > > -----Original Message----- > From: liverpud > Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 11:23 AM > To: Bristol-Somerset List > Subject: [B&S] LDS Family Search pilot project > > > The LDS are working on a pilot project. > Not too impressed so far.... > > http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html > > Edna - Ottawa > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > __________ NOD32 5857 (20110208) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.eset.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