Now this is rather unexpected... FindMyPast have just loaded (some of) the Lancashire Parish Registers. See https://blog.findmypast.co.uk/findmypast-friday-july-2588351934.html Up until now, they have only been on Ancestry. In fact, this is the first instance **I** know of where Ancestry and FMP cover the same county's PRs with indexes and *images*. Maybe someone more adept with the numbers of parishes can get a better idea of what the coverage on FMP is compared to Ancestry. In theory, FMP's list of parishes is on https://www.findmypast.co.uk/articles/world-records/full-list-of-united-kingdom-records/life-events-bmds/lancashire-parish-list Or you can use the browse option on https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/lancashire-parish-registers-browse to see what registers exist. From a tiny, tree directed sampling, I know that, e.g., Longton, St Andrew, is on Ancestry but not FMP. Ancestry took several goes to get their Lancashire PRs loaded, so it may be that their exclusivity agreement with Preston (assuming there is one) has only expired for the first tranche. Or who knows, this could be an FMP / Ancestry agreement. The images appear only to be PRs while Ancestry has the Bishops' Transcripts - important to me for Penwortham, which burnt in the 1850s and only survives as the BTs before that. The films used on FMP appear from a very small sample to be the Gen Soc Utah (i.e. Family Search) films, however, the FMP digitisation appears to have more grey in the images, which I prefer as I think it's sometimes easier to read than the harsh contrast on Ancestry. Have fun if you have an FMP subs but not an Ancestry one! Adrian

Adrian It happened with Warwickshire a few months ago Regards John Hanson - researching the Halstead/Holstead/Alstead names Researcher, the Halsted Trust, http://www.halstedresearch.org.uk New family history conference in 2018 http://www.secretlives.org.uk -----Original Message----- From: Adrian Bruce <abruce6155@gmail.com> Sent: 20 July 2018 19:14 To: LancsGen Mailing List <LANCSGEN@rootsweb.com> Subject: [LAN] Lancashire parishes on FindMyPast Now this is rather unexpected... FindMyPast have just loaded (some of) the Lancashire Parish Registers. See https://blog.findmypast.co.uk/findmypast-friday-july-2588351934.html Up until now, they have only been on Ancestry. In fact, this is the first instance **I** know of where Ancestry and FMP cover the same county's PRs with indexes and *images*. Maybe someone more adept with the numbers of parishes can get a better idea of what the coverage on FMP is compared to Ancestry. In theory, FMP's list of parishes is on https://www.findmypast.co.uk/articles/world-records/full-list-of-united-king dom-records/life-events-bmds/lancashire-parish-list Or you can use the browse option on https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/lancashire-parish-regis ters-browse to see what registers exist. From a tiny, tree directed sampling, I know that, e.g., Longton, St Andrew, is on Ancestry but not FMP. Ancestry took several goes to get their Lancashire PRs loaded, so it may be that their exclusivity agreement with Preston (assuming there is one) has only expired for the first tranche. Or who knows, this could be an FMP / Ancestry agreement. The images appear only to be PRs while Ancestry has the Bishops' Transcripts - important to me for Penwortham, which burnt in the 1850s and only survives as the BTs before that. The films used on FMP appear from a very small sample to be the Gen Soc Utah (i.e. Family Search) films, however, the FMP digitisation appears to have more grey in the images, which I prefer as I think it's sometimes easier to read than the harsh contrast on Ancestry. Have fun if you have an FMP subs but not an Ancestry one! Adrian _______________________________________________ :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: GENUKI - a virtual reference library of genealogical information. http://www.genuki.org.uk/ Contact the list administrator at LancsGen-admin@rootsweb.com :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: _______________________________________________ Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref Unsubscribe and Archives https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/listindexes/search/lancsgen Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community