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I very rarely get the time to actually transcribe a full register - but on a couple of occasions have made lists of the surnames actually found in the register - would this sort of thing be at all useful? |
A complete transcript of a register is very time consuming, but we are happy to receive data from chunks of a register, say, a 10 year period. What is needed though, is more than a list of surnames. For example, in a set of baptism data we at least need to know the first name, surname, names of both parents and the date, plus parish and county, and after 1812 the abode and occupation of the father. Also see: how to enter data
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I would be happy to transcribe all the Church Parish pages I have photocopied for my rels. (usually one to a page of eight or so) from LDS microfilms, but I do not know how anyone would coordinate this. If there are none, it would be a start even if patchy, but that might not suit the Project. |
This is an awkward one. The short answer is no. What we really want is either the data from a whole register or at least a substantial date range inclusive, say, 10 years, depending on the size of the parish and the number of entries. The main problem is one of co-ordinating when we start accepting data from odd pages, It will be much better therefore to have complete data (or complete for a given period) taken from a register. |
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I have a copy of the IGI. Can I transcribe data from that for FreeREG? |
The IGI is an index of records in some (but not all) parish registers. However, it does belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and as with all material should not be used as a source for transcription without their explicit permission. The IGI, being an index, only contains partial information from parish registers, and we need more than that for our database. The IGI also contains records which are not from parish registers, but submitted from LDS church members from their own research. The short answer is therefore no. What we want is data from the primary source, i.e. the actual parish register. |
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I have extracted records from a register of just my family, do you want this? |
This is an awkward one. The short answer is no. What we really want is either the data from a whole register or at least a reasonable date range inclusive, depending on the size of the parish and the number of entries. The main problem when we start accepting data from just one family, is that somewhere in there, some people will also have data from the IGI rather than a parish register, and some people will have data from other secondary sources. It will be much better therefore to have complete data (or complete for a given period) taken from a register. |
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I shall be "borrowing" the Parish records of xxxx parish shortly, from the LDS. Do "we" have permission to transcribe these if my source is a photocopy of the filmed records? |
This is a very good point, and one which we have looked into carefully. The actual registers, and the films themselves are copyright. In the case of Church of England parish registers, the registers (books) are the copyright of the present incumbent (vicar) of the church, and the films / microfiche (and prints from them) will usually be the copyright of either the LDS or the County Record Office. However, extracting data from them and presenting it in a different form, i.e. extracting names and dates from them, presents no problem in terms of copyright. As a matter of interest, that transcription (in the form that you produce it) actually becomes your copyright automatically. The main point, however, is that FreeREG will not be publishing full transcripts or even indexes for a parish register. All we shall be doing is making the data available for searches in the database for individual ancestors. It won't even be possible to "cheat" by searching for, and downloading, all records from one parish. What I would certainly recommend, is that if you do make a full transcript and index, that you freely give a copy (on disk and in printed form) to the local county family history society and also to the County Record Office. Some Family History Societies may ask you if they can sell copies of your transcript. Many do. That is up to you of course, but (a personal point of view) I think that your transcript should be offered to the FHS or CRO without expecting anything in return for your hard work. Think of it as a labour of love which will help researchers in the future. By the way, if a Family History Society has already published a transcript of a parish register, say on fiche or on booklet form, (the Oxfordshire FHS for example has published transcripts of virtually every C of E parish in the county), then it would be probably unwise to use their transcript to create a new transcript which you would call your own, or to submit their transcript to be included in the FreeREG database without their permission. A long answer to a short question ;-) Sorry.
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