Have you a date for your Samuel Firth? I have the Birstal PR fiche up to the early 1800s and can let you know exactly what's written in the records. Regards ChrisB ----- Original Message ----- From: "Annabelle Sutton" <annabelle@sutton86.fsnet.co.uk> To: <west-riding@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 1:46 PM Subject: [WRY] A message for Roy Stockdill. > Roy said, > > > I seem to recall from your original message that you were asking > > someone to search every parish between Leeds and York for you. That is > > simply not a practical proposition and could take months! Both Leeds and > > York themselves are covered by many parishes, not to mention all the > > ones in between the two cities. > > Hello Roy, first my appologies for talking to you via another persons > heading, I should not have done this. > > Now to make my position clear.I would never, never , ask someone to search > several parishes for me as I know how time consuming it would be.I would > also like to add that if someone does me a favour I would hope to be able to > reciprocate in some way. > > I have been on the India list for some time now,a lot of my ancestors left > England to go out and serve with the East India Company.People have done > lookups for me, > and I , in turn ,have done a lot of transcribing and look ups in old books , > that was my way of saying thank you,not just for those who helped me, but > for others as well. > > I was lucky when I came on this list to be offered a lookup by Anne Lucas > for my ancestor Samuel Firth,however,he did not turn up in the Dewsbury > records, where he finally decided he was born.(He originally said > Barnsly.)Anne offered to look at further parishes for me, but, I would not > dream of taking advantage of her big hearted offer.I think I have now found > him , through the L.D.S.on line records, in Birstall, something I shall have > to follow up at a later date. > > You seem a very knowledgable person and obviously offer a lot to this list.I > on the other hand as a newbie,have a lot to learn.I came on this list > hoping I might find a connection to my line of Firths, having failed on all > other avenues, and to learn a little about West Riding.I hope that is what I > will do. > > regards from, > Annabelle. > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WEST-RIDING-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.14.2/1052 - Release Date: 10/5/2007 18:53 >