Genealogy Chat

Sue

Which browser are you using? I've managed to print out a copy of a marriage record using Netscape. I enlarged the image to 100% and had just the one I wanted centred on the screen. I clicked on the icon above the image and the window for printing options came up. I clicked "selection" and chose "landscape" and was able to print a good copy.

I've tried several times using Internet Explorer and have had no luck - just a pile of wasted paper.

Marie.

Are they planning to transcribe the pre-1813 births, does anyone know?

Also, is there any way of enlarging the particular part of the image that I need before printing off? I have found a couple of brilliant marriages, but by the time I print them off they are illegible. Do I have to save each time to my desktop and then customize them?

Sue

The burial records are really useful too because you generally have an age on the register entry, many years before age is shown on the deaths on GRO....Much more likely to find the correct person if you need to order a certificate.

Gwyn

Well they arent all there and as you say the older untranscribed records are a bit hard going at present on some pages and of course they dont have all events as yet but my goodness Id have saved a fortune in certs if theyd had this stuff 6 years back.

These records are brilliant, great to see all these Marriages and Baptisms, i am sure they are going to help lots of people,

HOW EXCITING.............Sam

There doesn't appear to be a record for George Beland, 1804.

What comes up are Pallots, and England Baptisms and not London.
Maybe because Stepney was Middlesex and Rotherhithe was Surrey.

OK, I'm confused now.....I'm trying to trace the baptism of George Beland who was christened 14th September 1804 at St Dunstans Stepney. On the new LMA records there seem to be four groups of records that all cover 1804. How do I know which of these groups to look at?

Sue

Well they arent connected to the GRO so guess they wont be bothered !
I used to vist the LRO at islington which is just a short walk from the LMA and what I couldnt find at the LRO cos its was pre 1837 i often found at the LMA there was no competion between the two

Just skimming through the names...as you do...before spending some serious time tomorrow when I'm on my own, just a thought - now that I can look at marriages and print off the details, isn't this going to cut down their revenue from cert buying just a tad? Not that I'm complaining...

Thanks Samantha - off to spend another few hours on Ancestry...

I don't know about everyone else, but every time they update or introduce a new database I spend the next umpteen hours typing every name I can think of in my tree to see what comes up. It's amazing what you can find...

Sue

The fastest way to find these records is to go to the recent databases or what's new section - Baptisms and Burials 1813+ are indexed. Pre 1813 are browse only - indexing to come next year.

Marriages 1754-1921 are indexed.

Otherwise look under the births,marriages, deaths sub-section for England. The records will be marked 'new'.

AAaaaaggh...........will someone tell me where these records are.......I'm going bananas!! I've found the new database titles, but where do I go now?

Sue

A little bird told me that they are currently scanning wills at the LMA for ancestry. (Actually it's a friend who works there)

Some Baptism records have the date of birth others have not....depends on the Vicar. It's a shame there wasn't a separate column for Birth Date in their Registers.

me too Heather,been going through all the Dartnell,s and Ashford,s from Deptford .lovely thing too is that the St Nicholas Deptford records show their birth dates too Invaluable for these early pre 1837 births.

Im getting punch drunk now - TOO much is coming up in those records, lovely just found a 1765 marriage :)

Home page
Top left hand is section about new London Records
bottom of that section View all new records

Google
Ancestry whats new and it comes up

Pam, went to Ancestry, can't see anything that says What's New.

Am I thick?

Margaret

i have just renewed Ancestry today and decided to upgrade to the Premium package and wow WEEEEE, have found a list of 58 baptisms/marriages for my Emons family in Bethnal Green and Shoreditch including the marriage in 1807 of the parents of all of them !! they had 8 children so thats why there's so many baptisms for all the childrens children.
Found too a child I wasnt aware of who was my maternal grt grans sister b1859 died 1861 pre the census ,she was called Clara Harriet Harvey and grt gran was born in 1862 and named Clara Rosina after her sister i would think .had i not found this baptism this little one would never have been put on my tree with her family.Am going to send for her death cert.
What is good too is that the vicar put the birth dates in the margin for the baptisms in Shoreditch ,which i would never have found for the pre 1837 births