Thank you Ruth for all the information. Derbyshire and Notts are new counties for me so you've given me personally, a lot of information that I was not aware of. I shall now lose even more days browsing and reading! Thanks Linda On 1 April 2017 at 10:19, Ruth Genda via DERBYSGEN <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you, Margaret and Linda, for bringing this topic to our attention. > I’m noting the stress! > > The Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire Protestation Returns were transcribed by > W.F.Webster in 1980 and published by the Thoroton Society. > http://www.thorotonsociety.org.uk/index.htm Copies of their Transactions > can be purchased directly from them - they are cheaper if you become a > member. Amazon has used copies available now for £14.99 – not much more of > a cost than buying a single BMD certificate. Could be worth thinking > about? > > WFW also transcribed the Nottinghamshire Hearth Tax 1664-1674 returns which > can be bought similarly. > > For those unfamiliar with these transcriptions you can be assured that they > are 100% reliable (or as near as dammit is to swearing) because they have > been transcribed and described by palaeographers/historians. All Local > Studies Centres within the County – and probably neighbouring Counties - > will have copies of these particular Transactions: if they haven’t then you > could suggest that they think about buying in copies. Some FHS will have > them too. They are very useful to genealogists and family historians and > w/should not be considered by them as idle purchases. > > There are other Tax records which survive in some areas, (e.g. for windows, > hair powder, carriages, dogs, sheep, distressed Protestants in > France/Ireland, poll books, etc. ad nauseam) so it is well worth checking > with individual Record Offices and University Archives to see what is > around. See here: > http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/familyhistory/next_steps/adv_ > 07_17_and_18_01.sh > tml#ten > and for a comprehensive list with dates see here: > https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/England_Taxation > > Almost all of this information will not be found on websites. Much has not > yet been transcribed and put on paper even. But a lot has and can be found > by asking the questions in the right places – don’t flounder around but go > direct - then share what is found on Forums such as this one. > > Thanks again, Linda and Margaret, > Ruth > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >