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From: wendy doyle <>
Subject: Re: ENGLISH-FENS-D Digest V00 #302
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 20:45:10 +0100
References: <F1375hkdQmEgLvnl8A700011b66@hotmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <F1375hkdQmEgLvnl8A700011b66@hotmail.com>


Hi David _ would that they were - then my dining room wouldn't be
stacked full of piles of paper.......... the 1841 census transcription
project yesterday joined the 1851 computer entry project which joined
the carrier bags full of parish registers earlier in the week!

I think we have published 133 parishes - though some of these are only
to 1800 or 1850 - with 2 or 3 almost ready to go.

This from a total of 200 and a few....... so something like 65%? But a
disproportionate amount of the untranscribed bits is in the Isle of Ely
- because in the past the keen transcribers have been in the south of
the county.

I have no figures for Huntingdonshire.


If you tell me the names of the people you are missing, I can check our
Baptism index 1801-1837, which theoretically indexes all known sources
(at the time)...............





In message <>, David Feary
<> writes
>Wendy
>
>I was taken aback by your message - I'm obviously a bit naive!
>
>I was under the impression that all the parish records of Cambridgeshire had
>been transcribed and indexed.
>I am missing a whole family, maybe six, baptisms that I had expected to find
>in March between 1800 and 1825. Are the records of Wisbech from before 1837
>also not yet transcribed?
>
>Have you any idea of the percentage of Cambridgeshire records from before
>1837 that have not been transcribed?
>
>I would also be interested in the figures for Huntingdonshire, where I
>understand a lot of work has yet to be done.
>
>Regards
>
>David Feary
>
>
>
>From: Wendy Doyle <>
>To:
>Subject: Re: ENGLISH-FENS-D Digest V00 #300
>Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 08:10:58 +0100
>
>Hi Rich
>
>Sorry CFHS has nothing on Wisbech at present - there are two parishes in
>the town, both huge and both almost totally untranscribed.
>
>They are on our list of things to do - but so are a lot of other
>things...... we are working on as many projects as we have volunteers
>for at present - so the more volunteers, the merrier!
>
>
>
>Cheers
>
>
>
>
>
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wendy doyle

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