At 08:10 18/04/2005, Marilyn Moffat wrote: >I'm not sure about Chipping Sodbury - it is a much larger place and as the >centre of the registration district, I think it has the potential to widen >the scope enormously - I think it is a fine line here to then include all >the other villages in the area - Yate, Westerleigh - even Marshfield is in >the Reg District...I think there is benefit keeping it to the very local >knowledge. >What does anyone else think? Hi gang, I suggested in a post to the new NW Wilts List, that it would be very sensible to include places like Kemble and Long Newnton as being part of that area. My reasoning was that although they are now in GLS and their Parish Registers held in the GLS RO, that they are Wiltshire Ancient Parishes. Further, both the Phillimore Atlas and Index of Parish Registers and the Society of Genealogists consider them to be WIL. I believe the more Lists to which one can address their research enquries the merrier. That is, I do not prescribe nor proscribe what parishes are part of Tetbury, so I consider Beverstone, Avening, etc fair game. BUT, if some one posted a request bout Hawkesbury, for example, I would gently suggest that they re-posted in the Hawkesbury List <grin> My WITCHELL souls, who married to a WARN thrice, (three separate souls, that is!) I collect anywhere but mainly from GLS and WIIL Ultimately, of course, Marilyn is the List Boss, but I hope she is not too proscriptive! <vbg> After all, family history is a hobby not a chore, even if it does seem the latter at times. Cheers Phil. Warn Tetbury List dad, among others