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Originally Posted by ElizabethHerts
Phoenix, I find that with Hampshire it is very difficult to do any meaningful research before the 1750s. There aren't any PRs on Ancestry.
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Portsmouth was mercifully a borough, and there are wonderful records on FMP, but before 1814 it's impossible to identify families with any certainty, as a seaport just sucked in people from the surrounding countryside. I've spent many happy hours in the HRO, but was forced to conclude that I needed manorial records, as movement was often not to contiguous parishes, but to manors held by the same lord of the manor.