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I don't often use Family Search these days .......

........... their records have been superseded for several counties by the Online Parish Records and by freereg, but also most records can now be found on other sites even if sites such as ancestry and FMP have taken them from familysearch.

I only looked up Thos #1 - here's your other guys:

Ann https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NKDZ-BQX
Thos1 https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NKD8-99S
John https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NKD8-QM5
Rachel https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NKDZ-T47
Thos2 https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NY7M-S9R

Yes, the site no longer provides this level of info!.
It generally provides much more, (oftem with images too) for extracted records.
There is some loss on IGI's contributed records, e.g., the original names + info is still there, but the fact some names are linked by appearing on the same group sheet is lost.

Hi mgnv. somewhat belatedly I copied your find into my file and it matches my original entry for the family :-

THOMAS FIELD
Christening: 02 DEC 1763 Bossall, Yorkshire
Father: THOMAS FIELD
Mother: RACHEL
ANN 30 JAN 1763, JOHN 10 AUG 1765, RACHEL 10 JUN 1766, THOMAS 08 AUG 1767


As we all agree, the site no longer provides this level of info! From this it would seem that the first Thomas c.1763 must have died and his later brother c.1767 took his place.

Check out FS's UK collections at:
https://familysearch.org/search/collection/list#page=1®ion=UNITED_KINGDOM_IRELAND

The IGI is still there, although I never use it now. I think it's been supseded by their other collections.

Incidentally, I didn't find your Thomas Field on the IGI. I did find him in:
England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NKD8-99S
Indexing Project (Batch) Number C10572-2
System Origin England-ODM
GS Film number 918414

Thank you Margaret, Austin and Potty, the person for whom I was doing the research seems to have lost interest so there seems to be little point in taking it further. I shall have to wait for somebody new to have a request that will feed my addiction!

FMP does have some parish records but only for certain areas. It is good for Shropshire but not Dorset (for which Ancestry is good.). Also Ancestry has PR for some areas of Yorkshire and lots for Surrey, Liverpool, Manchester and Lancashire. Most of these have images.

One area that is well served by familysearch is the North East. It has images of the Bishops Transcripts for Durham diocese but they aren't transcribed so you have to search through the images page by page for each church

It is on familysearch.org (free) , as are all the children of Thomas & Rachel that you mention

Name Thomas Field
Gender Male
Christening Date 02 Dec 1763
Christening Place BOSSALL,YORK,ENGLAND
Father's Name Thomas Field
Mother's Name Rachel
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Same record is also on FMP- which also has image

There's also this one on Ancestry:

Thomas Field

in the England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
Record Image No Image
Text-only collection

Name: Thomas Field
Gender: Male
Baptism Date: 8 Aug 1767
Baptism Place: Bossall,York,England
Father: Thomas Field
Mother: Rachael
FHL Film Number: 918414

it's also on Ancestry:

Thomas Field

in the England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
Record Image No Image
Text-only collection

Name: Thomas Field
Gender: Male
Baptism Date: 2 Dec 1763
Baptism Place: Bossall,York,England
Father: Thomas Field
Mother: Rachel
FHL Film Number: 918414

Thank you Maddie, that was my intention!

why not try a free trial but do not forgrt to cancel if not required

Thank you Chris (I didn't know about Lobster House) but it is FMP that I am interested in and, as you say, may be worth considering a subscription - to satisfy the addiction ....

No it's on FMP...(Parents Thomas & Rachel, of the Lobster House)

Yorkshire Baptisms Transcription
Archive Borthwick Institute for Archives
Archive reference PR-BOSL 4

(so probably worth subscribing if you have more)


http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/NRY/Bossall/more.html

"LOBSTER HOUSE, an Inn, in the township of Claxton, and parish of Bossall; 2¼ miles W. of Bossall, 7¼ miles from York, 10¾ from Malton, 12 from Easingwold. Here the Magistrates for the wapentake of Bulmer hold their Meetings."

Chris :)

Hi Chris, I have tried the web address you gave, which I recognised as one of the places that I use, but it couldn't find Thomas Field 1763 !!

Thank you Chris, I will check out your suggestions.

A typical entry in my Word file, from the old days :-

THOMAS FIELD
Christening: 02 DEC 1763 Bossall, Yorkshire
Father: THOMAS FIELD
Mother: RACHEL
ANN 30 JAN 1763, JOHN 10 AUG 1765, RACHEL 10 JUN 1766, THOMAS 08 AUG 1767

Check Births, Marriages, Deaths (on 'Search', top right of page here) should be same as FMP for coverage of Counties

(above should be the same as FMP, see counties listed)

Chris :)

http://www.freereg.org.uk/

(another above, think that has been used on some of your queries before)

I have checked my list and I still use https://familysearch.org/search/collection/igi but it is nothing like it use to be - not going back to c.1565!

Thank you Kucinta and safc, I will check to see if those addresses are within those I already have but my interest is in "findmypast.ie" who recently sent me an email about their site.

try here

https://familysearch.org/search/