I hadn't checked my email for a while so not sure if you were aware - but sometimes there is both a parish register and bishops transcripts and I have found instances where the priest "remembered" something left out of the parish register and placed it on the bishops transcripts that were sent in. And sometimes things are inadvertantly left off the bishops transcripts. It is therefore very valuable to check bothBeverly From: Annie Woodward via <sfhg@rootsweb.com> To: Christine Jackson <jackson_cf@yahoo.com>; SFHG <sfhg@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2014 2:49 AM Subject: Re: [SFHG] gaps in registers Thanks Christine- I'm aware that the LDS Family Search site has the baptisms which is why I'm querying the fact that there are none on SFHG after 1663.  Maybe they're in process of being transcribed?  I don't like to rely too heavily on Family Search without the 'back up' of the registers. Again, I return to my point- it would be useful if there was a note against Thakeham for instance, to say that there ARE registers up to 1903 and that they will be, or are in the process of, being transcribed for our SFHG site. I think the SFHG site is generally very good and we are lucky to reap the benefits of all the hard work put into it over the years by willing volunteers and hope that my comments are considered helpful..........and how about this?.......I'll volunteer some time at Chichester to help transcribe some of these missing registers if it would be helpful? Annie Woodward11632 Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 13:20:28 -0700 From: jackson_cf@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [SFHG] gaps in registers To: anniepente@hotmail.com; sfhg@rootsweb.com Hi AnnieI'm surprised you cannot access any Thakeham baptisms after 1663.If you go to the FamilySearch site, you'll find that the Church of LDS/Mormons microfilmed all the baptisms from the 1500s up to 1903 - see "Film notes" at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/273264?availability=Family%20History%20LibraryIf they were filmed, then they must be in the database and you should be able to find the post-1663 entries at the FamilySearch.org site. Christine Jackson SFHG 397        From: Annie Woodward via <sfhg@rootsweb.com> To: SFHG <sfhg@rootsweb.com>  Sent: Tuesday, September 9, 2014 3:33 PM Subject: [SFHG] gaps in registers  Dear listersThanks for your comments thus far.Of course I totally understand that old registers can sometimes be too difficult to handle, transcribe or simply lost etc etc.  However, I would personally really appreciate some kind of 'statement' on the SFHG website as to why when there's a gap, or no record at all e.g.  I need information from Thakeham but baps are not there after 1663- why? [very interesting to see that they are mentioned by TNA as being held at WSRO:  http://apps.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=182-parb&cid=-1#-1   Likewise no records for Washington at all and nothing for West Tarring after 1837.Just some guidance on whether it's useless to look further because they simply don't exist or that they still haven't been transcribed would help.  Who knows, it may even persuade researchers to offer their services in transcribing!Annie11632                            -------------------------------To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SFHG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the b! ody of the message                            ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SFHG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message