Hampshire records will be on Ancestry! - Genealogists' Forum

ElizabethHerts · #1 13-12-21, 15:43

https://www.hants.gov.uk/News/202108...V-KqVb8ty-DHxs

It will include wills! That's great news; perhaps I shall be able to trace my Purkis family back further.

We might have to wait until the end of 2022.

kiterunner · #2 13-12-21, 16:35

That's great news. Thanks, Elizabeth. Can't wait!

Merry · #3 14-12-21, 08:42

Oooh, I need these for OH's family. Thanks

ElizabethHerts · #4 14-12-21, 09:37

As the PRs are already on FMP, although not some of the older ones, it is the wills which I'm really looking forward to.

kiterunner · #5 14-12-21, 12:15

I'm still waiting for the East Sussex records to turn up on Ancestry. Wasn't that supposed to be this year?
Edit - this did happen in the end.

ElizabethHerts · #6 02-11-22, 10:37

When will this happen?

kiterunner · #7 02-11-22, 11:38

It's supposed to be this year, so they only have a few weeks to meet that deadline now.

Phoenix · #8 27-01-23, 09:08

Are there any updates on the parish registers? Despite HGS indexes, and swathes of stuff available for decades on FamilySearch (back to the days of the CGI!) I have huge holes in my research.

ElizabethHerts · #9 27-01-23, 09:31

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.

Phoenix · #10 27-01-23, 10:40

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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.

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.