Celia, thank you very much. It's not surprising that some of the cards have gone "walkies" but a great shame as so much work was done to produce it. I wasn't aware that the DRO were going to digitise *all* the parish registers. Do you know what their time scale is or what type of access they are planning? Rosemary Northumberland - where it's just beginning to snow On 13/01/2013 11:58, Celia Renshaw wrote: > Hi Rosemary, somebody else may beat me to it but otherwise I'll be happy to > check for your HAWLEYs when I'm next at CLS which will be one day this > coming week. > > However, I do need to mention that over the years cards from the Bestall's > boxes have gone walkabout, unsurprisingly. I've had the same experience as > you, finding gaps in dates where later I found entries in the PRs. As far > as I'm aware, no-one has done a complete transcript of the entire PRs for > St Mary's so we're left with the unfortunate reality that the original PRs > have to be checked even though we have Bestall's index up to 1812. The > good news I guess is that DRO are going to digitise all the PRs so > Chesterfield St Mary should be accessible online one day. > > Regards, Celia Renshaw > in Chesterfield UK

Hi Rosemary, as I understand it the planned digitisation project goes beyond parish registers, but I believe it will start with those. The best info I've seen so far was in a DRO announcement forwarded to this list towards the end of last year, so if you search the list archives, you should find it. If I remember rightly, they said that the digitised records would ultimately be available online but didn't state which partner might/would be used for that (eg Ancestry, FMP etc). They were well aware that the big issue for digitisation is not the actual filming of records, which is relatively easy, but the accurate indexing of pages for searching purposes which is complex and time-consuming. In other words, there is no timeline or ETA yet for the project. Regards Celia in Chesterfield (sunny and frosty today; snow forecast for tomorrow) On 13 January 2013 12:25, Rosemary Probert <rosemary@rprobert.co.uk> wrote: > Celia, thank you very much. It's not surprising that some of the cards > have gone "walkies" but a great shame as so much work was done to > produce it. > > I wasn't aware that the DRO were going to digitise *all* the parish > registers. Do you know what their time scale is or what type of access > they are planning? > > Rosemary > Northumberland - where it's just beginning to snow > > > On 13/01/2013 11:58, Celia Renshaw wrote: > > Hi Rosemary, somebody else may beat me to it but otherwise I'll be happy > to > > check for your HAWLEYs when I'm next at CLS which will be one day this > > coming week. > > > > However, I do need to mention that over the years cards from the > Bestall's > > boxes have gone walkabout, unsurprisingly. I've had the same experience > as > > you, finding gaps in dates where later I found entries in the PRs. As > far > > as I'm aware, no-one has done a complete transcript of the entire PRs for > > St Mary's so we're left with the unfortunate reality that the original > PRs > > have to be checked even though we have Bestall's index up to 1812. The > > good news I guess is that DRO are going to digitise all the PRs so > > Chesterfield St Mary should be accessible online one day. > > > > Regards, Celia Renshaw > > in Chesterfield UK > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > DERBYSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Thank you Celia - now that I've searched and re-read the list archive on the postings about digitisation, it all comes back to me :-) For anyone else with a sieve for a brain like me, you can refresh your memory: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/derbysgen/2012-10/1351084710 Kind regards, Rosemary On 13/01/2013 12:51, Celia Renshaw wrote: > Hi Rosemary, as I understand it the planned digitisation project goes > beyond parish registers, but I believe it will start with those. The best > info I've seen so far was in a DRO announcement forwarded to this list > towards the end of last year, so if you search the list archives, you > should find it. If I remember rightly, they said that the digitised > records would ultimately be available online but didn't state which partner > might/would be used for that (eg Ancestry, FMP etc). They were well aware > that the big issue for digitisation is not the actual filming of records, > which is relatively easy, but the accurate indexing of pages for searching > purposes which is complex and time-consuming. In other words, there is no > timeline or ETA yet for the project. > > Regards Celia > in Chesterfield (sunny and frosty today; snow forecast for tomorrow)