Hello everyone, I’m looking for volunteers to try a Marriage Challenge later this year. If you live near a County Record Office or some other repository that holds copies of church marriage registers, I’d like to tempt you to do a Challenge. The Challenge is searching and finding the details of marriages for fellow Guild members. You would select a Registration District covered by your CRO and then a date range for the Challenge. You advertise your Challenge (I will do this for you on the Guild website and Journal) and ask for basic marriage details from the GRO listing to be sent you as a basis for your search. Even if your CRO has allowed Ancestry or FindmyPast to copy and index many of the church records, there is still a possibility for a Challenge. It is just a matter of selecting a suitable District and date range. Many FMP records end in 1880 or 1901, so a Challenge period after these dates would be suitable. Many Ancestry marriage records end in 1921. A Challenge can be tailored, by limiting the date range for the Challenge, to suit the amount of time you could spare to visit the Record Office. Just let me know whether you could be interested and hopefully, between us we can sort out a suitable Challenge. Peter Copsey Marriage Challenge Coordinator

Being an inhabitant of ’the colonies’ I’m not in a position to offer to do Marriage Challenges in English parishes. But I felt obliged to make a quick report and offer a heartfelt Thank You for so many past Marriage Challenges executed by such wonderful volunteers. I’ve submitted a number of my Shenton people to Marriage Challenges over the years (back as far as 2010), and have to date received 111 (that’s One Hundred Eleven !) faux marriage certificates or the data needed to generate same. This includes four I received just this morning from Nick Miskin on his Sheppey RD Challenge. While I haven’t (so far) nailed down every couple for all 111 marriages, the majority of them have been an absolute treasure to help my study, and I’m sure I’ll figure out the remaining ones eventually. Thank you again, Nick and all the other Challengers, and thank you Peter for organizing and managing and promoting this fantastic project ! Scott Shenton (GOONS 5292) Indialantic, Florida, USA Shenton one name study http://shenton.tribalpages.com > On May 19, 2016, at 11:58 AM, Peter Copsey via <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I’m looking for volunteers to try a Marriage Challenge later this year. If you live near a County Record Office or some other repository that holds copies of church marriage registers, I’d like to tempt you to do a Challenge. The Challenge is searching and finding the details of marriages for fellow Guild members. > > You would select a Registration District covered by your CRO and then a date range for the Challenge. You advertise your Challenge (I will do this for you on the Guild website and Journal) and ask for basic marriage details from the GRO listing to be sent you as a basis for your search. > > Even if your CRO has allowed Ancestry or FindmyPast to copy and index many of the church records, there is still a possibility for a Challenge. It is just a matter of selecting a suitable District and date range. Many FMP records end in 1880 or 1901, so a Challenge period after these dates would be suitable. Many Ancestry marriage records end in 1921. A Challenge can be tailored, by limiting the date range for the Challenge, to suit the amount of time you could spare to visit the Record Office. > > Just let me know whether you could be interested and hopefully, between us we can sort out a suitable Challenge. > > Peter Copsey > Marriage Challenge Coordinator > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc: > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > ------------------------------- > 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