________________________________ From: PETER WELLS <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, 25 July 2012, 12:46 Subject: Re: [MDX] London Metropolitan Archives Hello Connie,   yes your right the LMA do hold much on london but so to do the many archives that are in london such as tower hamlets lambeth lewisham and southwark they all hold a wealth of information that is not yet on ancestry on account once it is they will be forced to close or reduce there hours i do my family history by visiting each archives and reading there electorial rolls now that i have progressed from the 1730s to the 1958 period thanks to the great help that NIVARD OVINGTON has given me you can also type in east london history society and get two sites both the east london and the tower hamlets sites my family is nearly finished now they were split up during the blitz and i am just finding some who went to canada in 1959 they were born in 1936 like I was. so i hope soon to come over some one living who I can contact geting the family baptisms was qite easy for my wells family who came from woodborough in wiltshire the wiltshire record office sold me all of these but I was unable to get the parants of the earl ones and after a short time I was told either they had not married or had come from out of the county being as by then iwas back to 1730 so would not have known them I chose to believe they were not married i did come accross another wells who was then still alive  but my worton kin have been a problem the vestry house archives will give you for free if you have the address three cpies of the electorial roll for who ever your searching for hardley any archives are open on a monday now due iwould think because they are open saturdays until late in many cases  if you go on the east london history society you can get a link to the wapping history trust  you will posibly find local archives much cheaper than the london metropolitan archives  and lets not forget the hackney archives who do a first rate job the WORTON family died out in the early 1979 period by this timeone of the daughters had married into the HARVEY family anothe binto the andrews family in chingford essex and olive may worton had emigrated into canada her father had been ALBERT THOMAS WORTON who had been born in shoreditch haggerston and lived in 88 whiston street his house had been pulled down after the war and he had moved to chingford while his mother and father were living in 65 grove green road leytonstone I have never found much about south london in the lma but my wife has progrest very well with all the infomation she has recieved from lanbeth and lewisham archives ALBERT thomAS WORTON had married a LILY MAY BReGENZER in 1933 in sept. 24th., many thanks pete a kid from shoreditch    ________________________________ From: Connie <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, 24 July 2012, 15:16 Subject: Re: [MDX] London Metropolitan Archives [email protected] wrote: > Hello, > > I am wondering if anyone has ever used the research service at LMA? > I have taken a look at catalog but haven't gotten very far.  If you > have had experience with using the catalog or the service I would > be interested in your opinion and iinsights (off list if you would > like).  I understand that the LMA has a relationship with Ancestry > but that there is much that isn't online at this time. Hallo I've used their research service and found it to be very efficient and cost effective.  I found it was easier to mail them asking about a particular document for a specific person and giving the information I knew first. Ancestry has agreed with the LMA to digitise the parish registers for Greater London but NOT for Westiminster and the parishes which fall within their scope.  FindMyPast has the Westminster parish registers. Ancestry has a substantial number of the parish registers.  i don't know if the intention is to digitise any additional documents. ************************************** Send your List messages using **PLAIN TEXT** and always **TRIM AWAY** superfluous old messages in replies. **MEANINGFUL Subject Lines - who, what, where, when, with SURNAMES in CAPITAL letters** List Admin can be contacted at: [email protected] ------------------------------- 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