I can't set up Syndicates for your Cinderella periods at present, no scans available. Please see: http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/news.html - 7th December 2003. An update to the 7 December 2003 Item - The films for Marriages 1843, 1845, 1847, 1857, 1861, 1862 & 1863 are with our scanning organisation waiting scanning. and also see http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/vol_faq.html#13b Allan Raymond -----Original Message----- From: Barry Johnson <saint.cybi@virgin.net> To: FREEBMD-DISCUSS-L@rootsweb.com <FREEBMD-DISCUSS-L@rootsweb.com> Date: 27 March 2004 12:40 Subject: Marriages 1861 - 63 > >Marriages for the 1860s appear to be the Cinderella of FreeBMD, with none of >the 1861-63 pages allocated at all. I don't understand why so much effort >is going into the transcribing of pages from the C20 when the latter are so >much easier to look up (more entries per page) and read (printed rather than >handwritten). > >I have an interest to declare - a missing marriage from these years, >possibly involving some very inventive surname spelling. I've uploaded the >results of my GRO Index searches from 1854 to 1863, involving some 400 >entries, but that's the merest drop in the ocean, and the syndicate I'm >transcribing for mainly covers births and deaths. > >Please someone, start a syndicate for 1861-63 marriages. I'll be your first >volunteer! (And in answer to the inevitable - and reasonable - question: I'm >afraid I don't have the time, or probably the expertise, to set up and run a >syndicate.) > >Barry Johnson >Monmouthshire > > >============================== >Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration >Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237
Thanks, Allan. I obviously misunderstood http://www2.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/bmd-synd.pl ("Syndicate Allocation from 1861 to 1870" - marriages), taking "Free for Allocation" to mean free for allocation to syndicates, especially as we're invited to "Email us to start a Syndicate Here". An excusable misunderstanding on my part, I think! Barry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Allan Raymond" <allan_raymond@btinternet.com> To: "Barry Johnson" <saint.cybi@virgin.net>; <FREEBMD-DISCUSS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 9:29 PM Subject: Re: Marriages 1861 - 63 > I can't set up Syndicates for your Cinderella periods at present, no scans > available. > > Please see: > > http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/news.html - 7th December 2003. > > An update to the 7 December 2003 Item - > > The films for Marriages 1843, 1845, 1847, 1857, 1861, 1862 & 1863 are with > our scanning organisation waiting scanning. > > and also see > > http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/vol_faq.html#13b > > Allan Raymond > > -----Original Message----- > From: Barry Johnson <saint.cybi@virgin.net> > To: FREEBMD-DISCUSS-L@rootsweb.com <FREEBMD-DISCUSS-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: 27 March 2004 12:40 > Subject: Marriages 1861 - 63 > > > > > >Marriages for the 1860s appear to be the Cinderella of FreeBMD, with none > of > >the 1861-63 pages allocated at all. I don't understand why so much effort > >is going into the transcribing of pages from the C20 when the latter are so > >much easier to look up (more entries per page) and read (printed rather > than > >handwritten). > > > >I have an interest to declare - a missing marriage from these years, > >possibly involving some very inventive surname spelling. I've uploaded the > >results of my GRO Index searches from 1854 to 1863, involving some 400 > >entries, but that's the merest drop in the ocean, and the syndicate I'm > >transcribing for mainly covers births and deaths. > > > >Please someone, start a syndicate for 1861-63 marriages. I'll be your > first > >volunteer! (And in answer to the inevitable - and reasonable - question: > I'm > >afraid I don't have the time, or probably the expertise, to set up and run > a > >syndicate.) > > > >Barry Johnson > >Monmouthshire > > > > > >============================== > >Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > >Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >