Genealogy Chat

West Yorkshire marriages births baptisms and deaths on Ancestry.
Am presently going through my tree and filling in the gaps !!!!
Joan on a mission.
Only wish Lancashire would do it !

Thanks for the info!! I'm going there now and doing my lot! :-D

Do you mean you wish there were images for Lancashire, as there are a lot of transcriptions on lancs-opc.

There are some images for Lancashire on familysearch.

It doesn't work that way......Ancestry decide what records they include

Yes, they have been there a while now. I went through all mine before Christmas and found leads which I wasn't aware of. Kept me busy for weeks.

Hi Potty
the transcriptions on lancs opc are ok but these yorkshire ones are the images. The marriage certs are from the original registers and the banns give all the dates.
I have saved a pretty penny x And answered lots of up til now unanswerable questions without having the certs.
Joan

Here's the link to some Lancashire parish records on Familysearch.

They have the actual images of records, like the marriage certs :-D
I have saved a fortune aswell using the site below:

https://www.familysearch.org/search/image/index#uri=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.familysearch.org%2Frecords%2Fwaypoint%2F10931813

Thanks All
I will take a look Alison, we moved house before christmas and my coveted Family research stuff has just been released from the garage. Joan

Alison - they might call it Lancashire, but it's really just Greater Manchester.

Thanks for putting this up its a brilliant site. :-D

This is a great source, but users need to be aware that there are many errors in the indexing due to misreading of unusual local names by the transcribers. In addition, a very large number of pre-1813 baptisms and burials which appear in the form 'John, son of John and Mary Smith' have been indexed without a surname, because the surname was not entered immediately after the Christian name. Some records have been indexed to the wrong Church, as the heading at the top of the scan reveals. In other cases this is less obvious, but for example some burials at All Saints, Wakefield (the Parish Church, now Cathedral) have been indexed as Holy Trinity, Wakefield. This Church (now demolished) was on a very cramped site in George Street, and did not have a graveyard. West Yorkshire Archives indexes show that they hold baptism registers from 1843 to1954 and marriage registers from 1844 to 1954, but (not surprisingly) no burial registers, so how the transcribers put down the burials as being at Holy Trinity is difficult to understand.

Joan

I'm waiting for the Lancashire records which is next in the pipeline.
There is Liverpool as well which is a great help for some people with Manchester connections :-D :-D