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From: Alan Gresley <>
Subject: [WISBECH] Update FHLC - New microfilms for Wisbech area
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 15:59:43 +1100

Goodday again

The LDS have updated there Family Histoy Librarty Catalogue. For those who are unfamilar with the resource, it list most items available at Salt Lake City. It also list microfilms that can be loaned and viewed at any LDS centre around the World. Below is a link for the FHLC
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.asp

Better still for us listers are the release of new microfilms containing the Bishop's Transcripts the for the following Parishes and Chapelry. The original BT's are at Cambridge University Library

# Bishop's transcripts for Tydd-St. Giles, 1599-1861
Film 2358071
Baptisms, marriages, burials, 1599-1600, 1602, 1604-1614, 1616-1649, 1662-1668, 1670-1713, 1716, 1718, 1721-1722, 1724-1733, 1735-1736, 1738-1861 (marriages to 1839).

# Bishop's transcripts for Newton (near Wisbeach), 1599-1868
Film 2358008 Items 3 - 4
Baptisms, marriages, burials, 1599-1600, 1603-1622, 1624-1638, 1661-1713, 1716-1718, 1720, 1722-1725, 1727-1790, 1793-1868 (marriages to 1836, 1859).


# Bishop's transcripts for Parson-Drove, 1603-1850
Film 2358000 Items 1 - 2
Baptisms, marriages, burials, 1603-1639, 1661-1663, 1665-1670, 1673-1684, 1686-1713, 1715-1716, 1718-1720, 1722, 1724-1806, 1808-1833, 1843-1850 (marriages to 1833).

P.S. The Lynn St. Margaret links is now working

Kind Regards

Alan Gresley

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