I remember hunting for Grimston PR's but can't recall whether I found them on the AT's or BT's. Rosemary On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 10:02 AM, Keith Drage via <norfolk@rootsweb.com> wrote: > I do wish all these sites would identify the source of their records, > and whether they are transcripts (and if so who created the transcript), > or the original record. > > What The Genealogist does tell you is a range of dates and that these > are marriages only. If you compare that with the list on GENUKI for > Phillimore at > > http://www.origins.org.uk/genuki/NFK/norfolk/church/phillimore.shtml > > where they are the same, leads me to the suspicion that these are just > the contents of the published Phillimore marriages for Norfolk, which > are available from many other sources. If so the Phillimore marriages > are only an abbreviated transcript, and do not for example list witnesses. > > Note that at least 3 volumes of Phillimore marriages are available > online (see the above webpage), although obviously they may not have > indexes as a result. There may be more since this page was last updated > so it is worth an online search. > > Both parishes appear in Boyds marriage index from the Society of > genealogists (up to 1837), so you can search this either directly at the > Society of Genealogists website (if a member) or on Findmypast. They > also should appear on the Norfolk Marriages CD (1801 - 1837) from NFHS. > For completeness, neither parish is on NORs. > > As regards Family Search, these are in my understanding just the Norfolk > microfilms that LDS created on behalf of the Norfolk Record Office, and > as such they have not performed all that work, nor any of the recent > work. Further constraints exist in that permission may not have been > granted by the parish incumbent at the time for LDS to do this work. So > the fact that the Norfolk Record Office may list a microfilm on their > list of parish records, does not mean that the LDS has it. To a certain > extent you can audit this yourself: > - NROCAT will tell you whether NRO have the registers and whether they > have been microfilmed (and give you the NRO call numbers). > - on Family Search if you Search Catalog (rather than Records) you can > find out what is in the LDS library, and the entries will conveniently > cross reference the NRO call numbers. > - as I say, any microfilms (for Norfolk) so listed should be on the > Family Search website and if they are not, then the LDS may be able to > do something about it. > > Further the NRO list identifies that Grimston incumbents have not given > permission for the Microfilm to be available beyond 1712. > > I have looked at Gayton Thorpe registers in the past. It was a long time > ago. From the NRO list you will see there are large gaps - I think > partly that might be because some of the records appear in, or with, the > East Walton registers, but someone else will need to confirm, or correct > me on this, because it is so long ago I cannot remember. The NROCAT > record is a bit confusing on this. > > Note that Freereg does have entries for both these parishes but you need > to check the range of dates covered (if you have not done so already) - > you have not specified the dates you are interested in. > > > > regards > > Keith Drage > Swindon UK > > On 18/12/2015 13:53, xpn11 via wrote: > > Your wisdom please on this . Last time I looked the PRs for Gayton > > Grimston and Gayton Thorpe were not available on Family Search but are > > available at the record office. > > Does anyone know why these parishes are not on FS or if they are on the > > site but there is an error in how they are indexed? > > Second question is, I see the website The Geneaologist has transcripts > > of parts of some of these records for sale, added July 2015. Does anyone > > have experience of the quality of their work? > > TIA > > Rosie. > > > > ------------------------------- > > 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 > > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >