one caveat (I think). it appears that SEAX does not have all the parish records-at least, they might have all the Church of England Parish records, there's far too many to tell what may be missing, but they seem to be missing some of the nonconformist records. also, I don't know if the nonconformist records are included in this scanning set. they should be, but perhaps SEAX is only focused on CofE records. it would be a shame for the non-conformist records to be neglected. there is access to some, through FamilySearch and TheGenealogist, but most remain unacknowledged and unaccessable in any cohesive format. Cornelia On Wed 04/06/11 11:00 PM , "sylvia" [email protected] sent: I had emailed SEAX asking why they were copying PR's starting with the beginning years instead of c1837 and going backwards, also (as I had seen they had indexed some PR's) whether they could put those online meanwhile. Thought the response might be of interest to all: Thank you for your email. We decided to digitise the older parish registers initially as they are generally harder to read and we felt that the quality of the images that we obtain would be of more use in reading these particular registers. However, we are currently nearing the end of a very large project to digitise our post-1700 registers. We cannot yet say when they will be made available on SEAX but we hope it will be later this year. If you like to contact us again in a few months, we may have more definite news by then. Indexes are usually compiled by private individuals so there may be copyright implications; we have no plans to digitise them. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Any problems, please contact the List Admin: [email protected] [1] ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] [2] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Links: ------ [1] mailto:[email protected] [2] mailto:[email protected]

Cornelia, ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]>> > one caveat (I think). it appears that SEAX does not have all the > parish records-at least, they might have all the Church of England > Parish records, there's far too many to tell what may be missing, but > they seem to be missing some of the nonconformist records. also, I > don't know if the nonconformist records are included in this scanning > set. they should be, but perhaps SEAX is only focused on CofE records. > it would be a shame for the non-conformist records to be neglected. > there is access to some, through FamilySearch and TheGenealogist, but > most remain unacknowledged and unaccessable in any cohesive format. > Cornelia I do not think SEAX are neglecting non-conformists in the immense task of scanning and uploading registers: I have been most grateful to discover scans of non-conformist burials in Maldon, for instance. Kind regards, John Henley