FindMyPast does show sources. To find the information about the collection, pull down the ‘Search Records’ menu and select the bottom item – ‘A-Z of record sets’ and use the search facility there to find the collection you are looking for. For example, searching for ‘Cambridge’ brings up every record set that contains the word ‘Cambridge’. Having found the record set you want, click on the title and you will find not only a description of the set, but also if and where you can get more information or copies. original copies. For example, for Cambridge Baptisms it says, "The Cambridgeshire baptism records cover about 80 parishes and other registrar places in the English county. It also includes Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire births registered at the British Lying-In Hospital in London. The Cambridgeshire baptisms records are part of our ongoing parish records collection project. This unique collection brings together the records of baptisms, marriages, burials and related records registered across England and Wales and has been made available on findmypast in association with the Federation of Family History Societies member societies, the Society of Genealogists as well as other individual organisations and contributors. The Cambridgeshire parish records were transcribed by the Cambridgeshire Family History Society. The records are transcript only which means they do not show an image of the original parish record but do contain every detail found there. Cambridgeshire is a county in the east of England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the northeast, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west. The county town is Cambridge. Transcripts © Cambridgeshire Family History Society" Admittedly not a list of parishes, but a source. Jeanne Bunting 3472 Attersley > On 23 Jan 2015, at 22:44, Debbie Kennett via <goons@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > One of our Guild members Karen Cummings has done a nice blog post on the > subject of both Ancestry and Findmypast not providing proper descriptions > about the sources of their data: > > http://www.professionalfamilyhistory.co.uk/blog/2015/01/a-plea-show-us-your- > sources/ > > It's getting a lot of retweets. > > Debbie > > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
Seems as though they do not tell you what periods are covered or/if any years are missing Paul 2627 On 24/01/2015 20:41, Jeanne Bunting via wrote: > FindMyPast does show sources. To find the information about the collection, pull down the ‘Search Records’ menu and select the bottom item – ‘A-Z of record sets’ and use the search facility there to find the collection you are looking for. For example, searching for ‘Cambridge’ brings up every record set that contains the word ‘Cambridge’. Having found the record set you want, click on the title and you will find not only a description of the set, but also if and where you can get more information or copies. original copies. > > For example, for Cambridge Baptisms it says, > "The Cambridgeshire baptism records cover about 80 parishes and other registrar places in the English county. It also includes Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire births registered at the British Lying-In Hospital in London. > > The Cambridgeshire baptisms records are part of our ongoing parish records collection project. This unique collection brings together the records of baptisms, marriages, burials and related records registered across England and Wales and has been made available on findmypast in association with the Federation of Family History Societies member societies, the Society of Genealogists as well as other individual organisations and contributors. > > The Cambridgeshire parish records were transcribed by the Cambridgeshire Family History Society. The records are transcript only which means they do not show an image of the original parish record but do contain every detail found there. > > Cambridgeshire is a county in the east of England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the northeast, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west. The county town is Cambridge. > > Transcripts © Cambridgeshire Family History Society" > > Admittedly not a list of parishes, but a source. > > Jeanne Bunting > 3472 Attersley > >> On 23 Jan 2015, at 22:44, Debbie Kennett via <goons@rootsweb.com> wrote: >> >> One of our Guild members Karen Cummings has done a nice blog post on the >> subject of both Ancestry and Findmypast not providing proper descriptions >> about the sources of their data: >> >> http://www.professionalfamilyhistory.co.uk/blog/2015/01/a-plea-show-us-your- >> sources/ >> >> It's getting a lot of retweets. >> >> Debbie >> >> _____________________________________________ >> >> RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message