Thanks Nivard for that. I will have rummage and then post if I fail clear it up. Rosie On 31/01/2016 11:11, Nivard Ovington via wrote: > Hi Rosie > > As you suggest, Essex have their own website and charge for access to > their PRs and other records, rather than let a commercial company come > in and scan and they get a kick back for viewed pages as many other > counties do > > Familysearch do not have the images online for the transcriptions they > have online, probably as they can't get a licence from Essex CC as that > would lessen their income > > A lot of the Parish register information the LDS have on film/fiche is > of the BTs, not the actual parish register > > There is a decent write up on the Essex PRs they have > <https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/England,_Essex_Parish_Registers_%28FamilySearch_Historical_Records%29> > > And a linked page with known or reported issues > > <https://familysearch.org/ask/salesforce/viewArticle?urlname=England-Essex-Parish-Registers-1503-1997-known-issues&lang=en> > > Why not post the marriage entry you have and perhaps we can help find it > or at least suggest why we can't > > One possible reason for a marriage recorded in two or more places, is > the calling of banns being wrongly recorded as a marriage > > Banns should have been called in both home parishes of the parties > marrying (unless they resided in the parish of marriage for three weeks > as many did to save a banns fee) > > Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > > On 31/01/2016 08:21, xpn11 via wrote: >> Thanks Keith and for the link . >> Another puzzle. >> Family Search threw up a marriage result for one of my Fen edge ag labs >> ( with not especially common names ) in an unlikely Braintree. It is one >> I have been trawling images of several parishes to find. >> Would I be correct in assuming that because Essex have an online record >> image viewing service organised themselves ( at a fairly steep £10 a >> day), they have not allowed FS to put the images on line or am I >> missing trick in how to browse the Essex images on FS? >> Rosie > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORFOLK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message