Hello Charani I took a look and it all looks like just plain mumbo jumbo to me When I tried to open something - it went back to the index and would not open I cannot understand it at all I think you have to be in the place to view a record as I live in Australia it is a bit too hard for me to see I tried to see if their is an OPC for the area and or Ilchester and there is not one either? woe is me I might just have to pay a researcher to look Thank you anyway for trying Jill

In message <20140124215727.H4EZU.55118.root@nschwwebs05p>, Jill <jillmorley@bigpond.com> writes >I took a look and it all looks like just plain mumbo jumbo to me When I >tried to open something - it went back to the index and would not open >I cannot understand it at all I think you have to be in the place to >view a record as I live in Australia it is a bit too hard for me to see This link should take you straight to the list of Ilchester parish registers http://tinyurl.com/nlvofj7 The registers are roughly in order of age. Clicking on "1" will show you the details of the oldest. Unfortunately it starts in 1690 so it may not be of much use to you. There are some earlier records available as Bishop's Transcripts (contemporary copies sent to the local bishop) http://tinyurl.com/qhhabvs There are many gaps but some of the 1600s are covered. This is only the Record Office catalogue. To see the actual registers you have to either visit the RO or buy microfiche copies. The existing parish registers and some of the BTs (those in Dwelly's transcripts) have been transcribed for FreeREG and can be searched through them. http://www.freereg.org.uk/parishes/som/i.shtml#1 http://www.freereg.org.uk/cgi/Search.pl But I'm afraid that if the events you want fall into the gaps in these records , there is very little chance of you finding them anywhere else. -- David Hartley

Thank you David it is not that good for me since I live down under I need records on line I don't mind paying but they is nothing? Sincerely Jill -- Jill [ARNOLD] MORLEY O.P.C. [Genealogy] for the village- Winterbourne Kingston in Dorset, England http://www.opcdorset.org Project - Street Names of the Copper Coast – project Project- Port Adelaide Notes and Pictures of Past People ---- David Hartley <drhartley@woolleymanor.co.uk> wrote: ============= In message <20140124215727.H4EZU.55118.root@nschwwebs05p>, Jill <jillmorley@bigpond.com> writes >I took a look and it all looks like just plain mumbo jumbo to me When I >tried to open something - it went back to the index and would not open >I cannot understand it at all I think you have to be in the place to >view a record as I live in Australia it is a bit too hard for me to see This link should take you straight to the list of Ilchester parish registers http://tinyurl.com/nlvofj7 The registers are roughly in order of age. Clicking on "1" will show you the details of the oldest. Unfortunately it starts in 1690 so it may not be of much use to you. There are some earlier records available as Bishop's Transcripts (contemporary copies sent to the local bishop) http://tinyurl.com/qhhabvs There are many gaps but some of the 1600s are covered. This is only the Record Office catalogue. To see the actual registers you have to either visit the RO or buy microfiche copies. The existing parish registers and some of the BTs (those in Dwelly's transcripts) have been transcribed for FreeREG and can be searched through them. http://www.freereg.org.uk/parishes/som/i.shtml#1 http://www.freereg.org.uk/cgi/Search.pl But I'm afraid that if the events you want fall into the gaps in these records , there is very little chance of you finding them anywhere else. -- David Hartley ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-SOMERSET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Jill, If you have some sort of evidence that your family came from Ilchester and that they could go back to further generations, I would suggest that you actually purchase the PR's from the record centre as in the long run it will be cheaper. All you do is ask the Record Office for a copy of what is available for your place name in question. They will send a list. You choose what PR's for the time frame that you need, or all of them if you can afford it. If you have a wide range of families from this area you will pick them all up. You will then have the PR's and you too can become an OPC. You will find that you will revisit those Pr's dozens of times, not something that you could do if a researcher was involved. I too live in Australia and I have purchased nearly 40 parish records [could be more] and I just love my fiche to death: ) Bank fees do add up, so be careful and try to order as many as you can at once, they make good birthday/mother's day presents and don't go out of fashion. Bev -------------------------------------------------- From: "Jill" <jillmorley@bigpond.com> Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2014 7:57 AM To: <eng-somerset@rootsweb.com> Subject: [ENG-SOM] Ilchester parish records > Hello Charani > I took a look and it all looks like just plain mumbo jumbo to me > When I tried to open something - it went back to the index and would not > open > I cannot understand it at all > I think you have to be in the place to view a record > as I live in Australia it is a bit too hard for me to see > I tried to see if their is an OPC for the area and or Ilchester > and there is not one either? > woe is me > I might just have to pay a researcher to look > Thank you anyway for trying Jill > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-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: 2012.0.2247 / Virus Database: 3681/6530 - Release Date: 01/24/14 >