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From: "Janice Potter" <>
Subject: Re: [CI] Birth listings
Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 06:37:00 -0400
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Hi Mike
If you need help scanning, or typing up stuff let me know, I'm only a tiny
bit Jersey, mostly Guernsey on the one side, however would love to help out
in any way I can.
It was a lot of fun helping Ray LM transcribe his Rough Index!
So just let me know.
Jan P
Toronto,

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From: "Mike and Sylvia Bisson" <>
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2010 6:27 AM
To: <>
Subject: Re: [CI] Birth listings

> Lorraine Clarke wrote:
>> Mike
>>
>> What you are doing is fantastic, my question is what can we get from St
>> Lawrence.
>> I live in Perth, Western Australia.
>> I am looking for John Hill (Chelsea Pensioner - am awaiting the record to
>> go
>> online) and Ann? They had 6 children (that I know of) born between
>> 1829-1846
>> all born in St Lawrence
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Lorraine Clarke
>>
>>
> Lorraine
>
> The answer for St Lawrence is not very helpful at the moment - nothing
> available to us at all. However, I am visiting Jersey in July and am
> going to try to get a meeting with the head of the Jersey Archive, to
> suggest that they release their data for the other 11 parishes and also
> the indexes for baptisms, marriages and burials prior to 1842, which
> originated with the 12 parish churches. If they would just give us the
> data, we could then think about assembling a team to carry out the work
> required to get it into Jerripedia. It won't be a five-minute job,
> because the parish indexes will need scanning and then passing through
> OCR (optical character recognition) and some of them are handwritten! I
> don't anticipate that the Archive will release their information at the
> first time of asking, but I have some good contacts in Jersey, including
> in the States, and I will try to set the ball rolling so that they are
> prepared to make vital Jersey family history data available, on the
> basis that it won't cost any public money to do what other jurisdictions
> are doing without being asked.
>
> I know that there has been reluctance to let the LDS get their hands on
> church records because of the religious issue, but perhaps an
> independent, secular site such as Jerripedia will have a greater appeal
> in Jersey. We can but try. In the meantime I will put any data already
> in list members hands on to Jerripedia as quickly as I possibly can.
>
> Mike
>
>
>
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