It always was Cofton Hackett to my knowledge, just the way people interpreted it on maps with the "f" looking like an old-fashioned "s", i.e. the f without it's bar across Regards, Steve Cullen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gus Tysoe" <[email protected]> To: "Jen" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 7:35 PM Subject: Re: [WOR] Place name Caston Hackett > Hello Jen, > > This is almost certainly COSTON Hackett - today's COFTON Hackett - that > was > (may still be) in Bromsgrove Registration District. > > Despite what it's inhabitants might tell you, for all practical purposes - > if you go there 'on the ground' - it's the South-Eastern part of > Birmingham... > > Gus > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jen" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 5:29 PM > Subject: [WOR] Place name Caston Hackett > > > I must not be reading this name right. I have googled and checked Genuki. > Does anyone know what Caston Hackett could be? It is given as a birth > location for John Lilly in Staple Hill on the 1851 census. Thanks Jenn > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > ------------------------------- > 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 > >

Hello Jen, This is almost certainly COSTON Hackett - today's COFTON Hackett - that was (may still be) in Bromsgrove Registration District. Despite what it's inhabitants might tell you, for all practical purposes - if you go there 'on the ground' - it's the South-Eastern part of Birmingham... Gus ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jen" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 5:29 PM Subject: [WOR] Place name Caston Hackett I must not be reading this name right. I have googled and checked Genuki. Does anyone know what Caston Hackett could be? It is given as a birth location for John Lilly in Staple Hill on the 1851 census. Thanks Jenn ------------------------------- 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

I must not be reading this name right. I have googled and checked Genuki. Does anyone know what Caston Hackett could be? It is given as a birth location for John Lilly in Staple Hill on the 1851 census. Thanks Jenn

Hi Everyone This is my first posting to this List. My G-G-Grandparents were Thomas and Hannah Smith and they have many descendents beside myself living in S-E Queensland. The Birtsmorton Smiths were a family of Thatchers I believe. Thomas, son of William, was born Eldersfield. He married (1) Emma Symonds. children -- Mary and George, christened Berrow. George married Eliza Tainton 1863 Thomas married (2) Hannah Freeman, daughter of John Freeman, 1838 Family, all said to have been christened Birtsmorton ----- Ann, 1840 John Robertson 1843, married Adelaide Symonds David, 1845, married Emma James Harriet, 1847, married George Holbrock Thomas, 1848, married Selina James Wilson, 1851, married Emma Jane Vaughan Edward, 1853 Alfred, 1855. Married Elizabeth Rollins 1871 ( my g-grandparents) Elizabeth 1857 Emma 1859 Hannah, 1861 Henry 1863, married Jane Callaghan Qld Thomas Snr died 1869 and soon after several members of the family went to America to work, Alfred and Edward in cotton mills, Henry and mother Hannah lived in Montville, Connecticut. They returned to England and by 1878, Alfred, Edward, Henry and their mother had arrived in Qld, followed later by David. They settled in Redland Bay but by the early 1890's all 4 brothers and the mother had selected agricultural land on the Blackall Range where they became pioneers of the villages Mapleton and Montville. Edward returned to Birtsmorton after the death of his mother in 1901 and lived with Sarah Ann Smith, daughter of George until his death in 1936. It would be wonderful to make contact with fellow descendants but we would all be grateful for any additional information, or corrections to our history. Regards Maureen from sunny Queensland

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John: Hugh Wallis's website http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers/CountyWorcester.htm#G shows that the IGI contains baptisms at Great Comberton from 1756-1875. Searching this, there are 8 RICHARDSONs in that time period, of which just one is between 1800-1830. This is Henry, son of Ann RICHARDSON, baptised 6 June 1819. There are also marriages 1755-1885 at Great Comberton on the IGI. Three of these are RICHARDSON, and only one in your time frame: Eliza RICHARDSON and Richard NUTHER on 11 December 1826. Best wishes Paul Prescott ----- Original Message ----- From: "JR" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2007 10:30 AM Subject: [WOR] Great Comberton > Good morning list; at last some sun to lift the spirits. > > Could sks with infinitely more knowledge than myself, on the subject, (not > difficult!) tell me if there is a source of information that would tell me > if there were RICHARDSONS in GREAT COMBERTON around 1800 -1830. > Particularly births. > > I have the marriage of an ELIZABETH RICHARDSON in 1826, and am trying to > establish if she originated in the village. her husbands name must have > been transcribed wrongly as there is no sign of them post this marriage. > > Any advice appreciated > > John Richardson > Eaton Socon > On the River great Ouse > > ------------------------------- > 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 >

Is there anyone on list researching Williams from the Gt Witley-.Pensax-Abberley or Lindridge areas of Worcs.1700's Also COOK(E) at Abberley (same date) Jackie.

Thank you Paul, I ommitted to say that I had looked at Hugh Wallis. I wondered if there were any other avenues of approach. Parish records perhaps, as we are aware that the IGI and hence Hughes site is only as good as the information gathered. In the case of Elizabeth Richardsons marriage in 1826, with errors I feel. I wondered if Elizabeth was local! Thanks again John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Prescott" <[email protected]> To: "JR" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2007 3:56 AM Subject: Re: [WOR] Great Comberton > John: > > Hugh Wallis's website > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers/CountyWorcester.htm#G > > shows that the IGI contains baptisms at Great Comberton from 1756-1875. > Searching this, there are 8 RICHARDSONs in that time period, of which just > one is between 1800-1830. This is Henry, son of Ann RICHARDSON, baptised > 6 June 1819. > > There are also marriages 1755-1885 at Great Comberton on the IGI. Three > of these are RICHARDSON, and only one in your time frame: Eliza RICHARDSON > and Richard NUTHER on 11 December 1826. > > Best wishes > > Paul Prescott > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "JR" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2007 10:30 AM > Subject: [WOR] Great Comberton > > >> Good morning list; at last some sun to lift the spirits. >> >> Could sks with infinitely more knowledge than myself, on the subject, >> (not difficult!) tell me if there is a source of information that would >> tell me if there were RICHARDSONS in GREAT COMBERTON around 1800 -1830. >> Particularly births. >> >> I have the marriage of an ELIZABETH RICHARDSON in 1826, and am trying to >> establish if she originated in the village. her husbands name must have >> been transcribed wrongly as there is no sign of them post this marriage. >> >> Any advice appreciated >> >> John Richardson >> Eaton Socon >> On the River great Ouse >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 >> > > >

Good morning list; at last some sun to lift the spirits. Could sks with infinitely more knowledge than myself, on the subject, (not difficult!) tell me if there is a source of information that would tell me if there were RICHARDSONS in GREAT COMBERTON around 1800 -1830. Particularly births. I have the marriage of an ELIZABETH RICHARDSON in 1826, and am trying to establish if she originated in the village. her husbands name must have been transcribed wrongly as there is no sign of them post this marriage. Any advice appreciated John Richardson Eaton Socon On the River great Ouse

Can anyone help? My g, g, grandfather, James Hurley, born about 1821 (per 1841 through 1871 censuses) in Dudley and married Sophia Homer on 12/26/1840 in Tipton, Stafford. According to the marriage certificate, his father was John Hurley. I have reached a dead end. Any help would be appreciated. Judy

Thank you Polly, it seems we've all been hoping for the wrong bird! So if it does get online as MAGPIE it should be an improvement on what we have now (with the extra details) but it won't give us the missing registrations. Perhaps we ought to be putting pressure on the "powers that be" to give us what we need. Vivien From: "Polly Rubery" <[email protected]> > > It was never intended that the DoVE index was going to be made available to > the public. Instead it was going to be used to inform the "Multiple Access > to GRO Published Index Events (MAGPIE) Project", which was what was going to > be made available online to the public. >

Thanks, Polly, for that readily-understandable summary of both the DoVE and MAGPIE projects. But I wonder just how much time, effort and money was spent to devise those three cutesy acronyms - a brilliant idea, especially as they all seem to've been bird-limed... I'm sticking with my expectations fixed on 2015 for actual completion and availability - but I'd be more than happy to be proved wrong. Gus ----- Original Message ----- From: "Polly Rubery" <[email protected]> To: "Eng-Worcester" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 8:35 PM Subject: [WOR] DoVE and MAGPIE And if you read this carefully and the GRO links for the DoVE Project (Digitisation of Vital Events) you will learn that: The DoVE Project is digitising the microfilms of the Quarterly Returns of BMD that the GRO uses to produce certificates by scanning the films - WHERE they are readable. How many certificates have you received from the GRO where the details are printed as the film copy is not legible when scanned. How are the people in India going to cope with these? This re-indexing should cure problems in the Indexes where the QRs have been made to the GRO, even if late (as many marriages are), BUT if the event was never returned to the GRO by some error or oversight, or was copied wrongly by the person making the QR, then it will *still* be missing or wrong in the DoVE index. However the DoVE index and digitisation is for the benefit of the GRO - they will be able to locate events and print off certificates much more quickly, by means of the EAGLE system. It was never intended that the DoVE index was going to be made available to the public. Instead it was going to be used to inform the "Multiple Access to GRO Published Index Events (MAGPIE) Project", which was what was going to be made available online to the public. I now quote from the FFHS about MAGPIE: "# The January 2007 FRC Newsletter stated these indexes would start to be available on the internet from early 2008 # The April 2007 FRC Newsletter stated that most index searches would be possible online by April 2008 # At the July 2007 FRC User Group meeting, the GRO stated completion had slipped significantly beyond April 2008 and, because there are currently no funds agreed for the following financial year 2008-2009, **the project has been suspended** Now that the future position of the GRO has been resolved (it is to become part of the Identity and Passport Service see: http://www.passport.gov.uk/press-2007-10-9.asp) hopefully they will reinstate the MAGPIE Project..... I am not holding my breath! Polly ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Prescott" <[email protected]> To: "Firebird" <[email protected]>; "Eng-Worcester" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 7:09 PM Subject: Re: [WOR] DoVE And here's the history of how it's fallen behind schedule. Sadly, par for the course for a large public sector IT project. http://www.ffhs.org.uk/archives/gro/civil-reg-0707.php Best wishes Paul Prescott ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Prescott" <[email protected]> To: "Firebird" <[email protected]>; "Eng-Worcester" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 7:02 PM Subject: Re: [WOR] DoVE > I've now found the source. > > http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/aboutus/lookingahead/Digitisation_of_Vital_Events.asp > > Best wishes > > Paul Prescott > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Paul Prescott" <[email protected]> > To: "Firebird" <[email protected]>; "Eng-Worcester" > <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 6:51 PM > Subject: Re: [WOR] DoVE > > >> Mike, Vivien: >> >> I understand that DoVE will create a new index by going back to the >> original >> records, which are being scanned. Births will have mother's maiden >> names, >> marriages will have spouses, and deaths will have ages, all from 1837 >> onwards. >> >> Having written that, I can't now remember what my source for it was. >> Possibly an earlier edition of the FRC newsletter. >> >> Best wishes >> >> Paul Prescott >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Firebird" <[email protected]> >> To: "Eng-Worcester" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 6:10 PM >> Subject: Re: [WOR] DoVE >> >> >>> Mike Palmer wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I understand that the information will be taken from records already >>>> available at the GRO, so any already missing which never made it from >>>> local >>>> Registrars and Churches will still not be available online. Is that >>>> correct? >>> >>> This is what I understood, but others have said the missing entries >>> *will* be included. >>> >>>> And will there be any other new information available to us in this >>>> index >>>> apart from a spouse's surname and a mother's maiden (or former) name? >>> >>> Spouse's surname, mother's maiden name, not former name, and age at >>> death, but that's all. >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> 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 >>> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 >> > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > ------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------- 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

And if you read this carefully and the GRO links for the DoVE Project (Digitisation of Vital Events) you will learn that: The DoVE Project is digitising the microfilms of the Quarterly Returns of BMD that the GRO uses to produce certificates by scanning the films - WHERE they are readable. How many certificates have you received from the GRO where the details are printed as the film copy is not legible when scanned. How are the people in India going to cope with these? This re-indexing should cure problems in the Indexes where the QRs have been made to the GRO, even if late (as many marriages are), BUT if the event was never returned to the GRO by some error or oversight, or was copied wrongly by the person making the QR, then it will *still* be missing or wrong in the DoVE index. However the DoVE index and digitisation is for the benefit of the GRO - they will be able to locate events and print off certificates much more quickly, by means of the EAGLE system. It was never intended that the DoVE index was going to be made available to the public. Instead it was going to be used to inform the "Multiple Access to GRO Published Index Events (MAGPIE) Project", which was what was going to be made available online to the public. I now quote from the FFHS about MAGPIE: "# The January 2007 FRC Newsletter stated these indexes would start to be available on the internet from early 2008 # The April 2007 FRC Newsletter stated that most index searches would be possible online by April 2008 # At the July 2007 FRC User Group meeting, the GRO stated completion had slipped significantly beyond April 2008 and, because there are currently no funds agreed for the following financial year 2008-2009, **the project has been suspended** Now that the future position of the GRO has been resolved (it is to become part of the Identity and Passport Service see: http://www.passport.gov.uk/press-2007-10-9.asp) hopefully they will reinstate the MAGPIE Project..... I am not holding my breath! Polly ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Prescott" <[email protected]> To: "Firebird" <[email protected]>; "Eng-Worcester" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 7:09 PM Subject: Re: [WOR] DoVE And here's the history of how it's fallen behind schedule. Sadly, par for the course for a large public sector IT project. http://www.ffhs.org.uk/archives/gro/civil-reg-0707.php Best wishes Paul Prescott ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Prescott" <[email protected]> To: "Firebird" <[email protected]>; "Eng-Worcester" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 7:02 PM Subject: Re: [WOR] DoVE > I've now found the source. > > http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/aboutus/lookingahead/Digitisation_of_Vital_Events.asp > > Best wishes > > Paul Prescott > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Paul Prescott" <[email protected]> > To: "Firebird" <[email protected]>; "Eng-Worcester" > <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 6:51 PM > Subject: Re: [WOR] DoVE > > >> Mike, Vivien: >> >> I understand that DoVE will create a new index by going back to the >> original >> records, which are being scanned. Births will have mother's maiden >> names, >> marriages will have spouses, and deaths will have ages, all from 1837 >> onwards. >> >> Having written that, I can't now remember what my source for it was. >> Possibly an earlier edition of the FRC newsletter. >> >> Best wishes >> >> Paul Prescott >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Firebird" <[email protected]> >> To: "Eng-Worcester" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 6:10 PM >> Subject: Re: [WOR] DoVE >> >> >>> Mike Palmer wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I understand that the information will be taken from records already >>>> available at the GRO, so any already missing which never made it from >>>> local >>>> Registrars and Churches will still not be available online. Is that >>>> correct? >>> >>> This is what I understood, but others have said the missing entries >>> *will* be included. >>> >>>> And will there be any other new information available to us in this >>>> index >>>> apart from a spouse's surname and a mother's maiden (or former) name? >>> >>> Spouse's surname, mother's maiden name, not former name, and age at >>> death, but that's all. >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> 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 >>> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 >> > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > ------------------------------- 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

Paul, VERY many thanks for all the details on the DoVE Project - I've learned a lot, including that "DoVE" is no longer used as aterm that can be Googled for new information.... BUT... Despite all the Hype about "Marriages containing Spouses' Names" there's been a very significant silence as to how far they've got with Marriages - or Deaths, for that matter. And as it was Marriages that were were known to be the Big Problem area - especially following the publication of "A Comedy of Errors" a few years back - it looks as if it will be a long time before we get the hyped "Spouses Names". Throw in the 12-month - so far - overrun on Births, I'm just hoping I'll survive to 2015 to pick up all of my TYSOEs..... Gus ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Prescott" <p[email protected]> To: "Eng-Worcester" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 3:34 PM Subject: [WOR] DoVE Gus: The definitive statement comes from "The Family Record", the newsletter from the Family Records Centre. See http://www.familyrecords.gov.uk/frc/news/fr_39.htm for the latest position. The project appears to be progressing steadily, albeit that the original timescales have slipped. It's not being done in-house, but under an external contract with Siemens, so in principle the move of the GRO shouldn't affect it. Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gus Tysoe" <[email protected]> To: "Paul Prescott" <[email protected]>; "Mike Palmer" <[email protected]>; "John Kane" <[email protected]>; "Eveline Clarke" <[email protected]>; "Eng-Worcester" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 2:35 PM Subject: Re: [WOR] GOWER > Hi Paul, > > But is there any news on *when* the New Index will be available - and at > what cost-to-view? > > The most recent I could find by Googling was April 2006 - and since then > there's been the news that the GRO is going to be moved to the Passport > Service in the Spring - which doesn't exactly Bode Well... > > Gus > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Paul Prescott" <[email protected]> > To: "Mike Palmer" <[email protected]>; "John Kane" > <[email protected]>; "Eveline Clarke" <[email protected]>; > "Eng-Worcester" <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 2:14 PM > Subject: Re: [WOR] GOWER > > > Vivien: > > Yes, I believe so. But you'll only need to do it for couples married > before > 1837 because DoVE also gives spouses' names in GRO marriages. > > Best wishes > > Paul Prescott > > ------------------------------- 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

Thank you Paul. I had picked up lots of snippets of information, but this gives us the main points. it will be an improvement on what we have at present. What a shame that it's running behind schedule. Vivien From: "Paul Prescott" <[email protected]> > I've now found the source. > > http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/aboutus/lookingahead/Digitisation_of_Vital _Events.asp >

And here's the history of how it's fallen behind schedule. Sadly, par for the course for a large public sector IT project. http://www.ffhs.org.uk/archives/gro/civil-reg-0707.php Best wishes Paul Prescott ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Prescott" <[email protected]> To: "Firebird" <[email protected]>; "Eng-Worcester" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 7:02 PM Subject: Re: [WOR] DoVE > I've now found the source. > > http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/aboutus/lookingahead/Digitisation_of_Vital_Events.asp > > Best wishes > > Paul Prescott > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Paul Prescott" <[email protected]> > To: "Firebird" <[email protected]>; "Eng-Worcester" > <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 6:51 PM > Subject: Re: [WOR] DoVE > > >> Mike, Vivien: >> >> I understand that DoVE will create a new index by going back to the >> original >> records, which are being scanned. Births will have mother's maiden >> names, >> marriages will have spouses, and deaths will have ages, all from 1837 >> onwards. >> >> Having written that, I can't now remember what my source for it was. >> Possibly an earlier edition of the FRC newsletter. >> >> Best wishes >> >> Paul Prescott >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Firebird" <[email protected]> >> To: "Eng-Worcester" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 6:10 PM >> Subject: Re: [WOR] DoVE >> >> >>> Mike Palmer wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I understand that the information will be taken from records already >>>> available at the GRO, so any already missing which never made it from >>>> local >>>> Registrars and Churches will still not be available online. Is that >>>> correct? >>> >>> This is what I understood, but others have said the missing entries >>> *will* be included. >>> >>>> And will there be any other new information available to us in this >>>> index >>>> apart from a spouse's surname and a mother's maiden (or former) name? >>> >>> Spouse's surname, mother's maiden name, not former name, and age at >>> death, but that's all. >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> 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 >>> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 >> > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >

I've now found the source. http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/aboutus/lookingahead/Digitisation_of_Vital_Events.asp Best wishes Paul Prescott ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Prescott" <[email protected]> To: "Firebird" <[email protected]>; "Eng-Worcester" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 6:51 PM Subject: Re: [WOR] DoVE > Mike, Vivien: > > I understand that DoVE will create a new index by going back to the > original > records, which are being scanned. Births will have mother's maiden names, > marriages will have spouses, and deaths will have ages, all from 1837 > onwards. > > Having written that, I can't now remember what my source for it was. > Possibly an earlier edition of the FRC newsletter. > > Best wishes > > Paul Prescott > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Firebird" <[email protected]> > To: "Eng-Worcester" <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 6:10 PM > Subject: Re: [WOR] DoVE > > >> Mike Palmer wrote: >> >> >>> I understand that the information will be taken from records already >>> available at the GRO, so any already missing which never made it from >>> local >>> Registrars and Churches will still not be available online. Is that >>> correct? >> >> This is what I understood, but others have said the missing entries >> *will* be included. >> >>> And will there be any other new information available to us in this >>> index >>> apart from a spouse's surname and a mother's maiden (or former) name? >> >> Spouse's surname, mother's maiden name, not former name, and age at >> death, but that's all. >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 >> > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >

Mike, Vivien: I understand that DoVE will create a new index by going back to the original records, which are being scanned. Births will have mother's maiden names, marriages will have spouses, and deaths will have ages, all from 1837 onwards. Having written that, I can't now remember what my source for it was. Possibly an earlier edition of the FRC newsletter. Best wishes Paul Prescott ----- Original Message ----- From: "Firebird" <[email protected]> To: "Eng-Worcester" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 6:10 PM Subject: Re: [WOR] DoVE > Mike Palmer wrote: > > >> I understand that the information will be taken from records already >> available at the GRO, so any already missing which never made it from >> local >> Registrars and Churches will still not be available online. Is that >> correct? > > This is what I understood, but others have said the missing entries > *will* be included. > >> And will there be any other new information available to us in this index >> apart from a spouse's surname and a mother's maiden (or former) name? > > Spouse's surname, mother's maiden name, not former name, and age at > death, but that's all. > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >

Mike Palmer wrote: > I understand that the information will be taken from records already > available at the GRO, so any already missing which never made it from local > Registrars and Churches will still not be available online. Is that correct? This is what I understood, but others have said the missing entries *will* be included. > And will there be any other new information available to us in this index > apart from a spouse's surname and a mother's maiden (or former) name? Spouse's surname, mother's maiden name, not former name, and age at death, but that's all.

In case anyone else is wondering-- Digitisation of Vital Events (DoVE): (taken from an earlier FRC newsletter) "The DoVE Project, (will) scan, digitise and create a new public index for the Registrar General's birth, still-birth, marriage and death records." I understand that the information will be taken from records already available at the GRO, so any already missing which never made it from local Registrars and Churches will still not be available online. Is that correct? And will there be any other new information available to us in this index apart from a spouse's surname and a mother's maiden (or former) name? Vivien