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Member Since: May 2003 Posts: 9,617 Send Message	MR_MAGOO	Report	6 Dec 2016 21:23
Member Since: May 2003 Posts: 9,617 Send Message	Interesting news item found in the Diss Express dated 4 September 1925: - "An investigation by the Surrey County Council has revealed that during the war many ancient parish records were sold as waste paper." As if tracing your family tree wasn't hard enough in the first place...!!
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 29,988 Send Message	+++DetEcTive+++	Report	6 Dec 2016 23:06
	Such a shame, but then they wouldn't have thought they'd have been of interest 100 years later. One Parish with family connections had theirs stolen shortly after WW2. The belief at the time was that the parchement would be used to make lampshades. Thankfully local historians had already made a start on transcripts, but its not the same, is it?
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