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Old 27-01-13, 12:16
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I've bitten the bullet and taken out a week's sub (just expired today) and trawled through the registers.

It's aggravating not to have an index - although some registers have an index at the back - and others at the front, just to be contrary - so a lot of trawling. I had to wait for each image to load, whereas looking on film is quicker. I found a
lot of what I wanted, but golly I wish they'd at least have provided a guide that said
Image 2 & 3 blank pages
Images 4-10 marriages 1730-1790
Images 11-23 baptisms 1730-1783

or something to give a clue to how much you need to trawl through. I suppose its cheaper than a trip to the records office, but its unwieldy when I'm used to the speed of Ancestry & FMP.
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Chowns in Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire
Brewer, Broad, Eplett & Pope in Cornwall
Smoothy & Willsher/Wiltshire in Essex & Surrey
Emms, Mealing + variants, Purvey & Williams in Gloucestershire
Barnes, Dunt, Gray, Massingham, Saul/Seals/Sales in Norfolk
Matthews & Nash in Warwickshire
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