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From: Ron Lankshear <>
Subject: Re: [LON] Mixing Registers and BTs on Ancestry (response from LMA)
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:21:15 +1100
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Hi John
I agree with what you say about the writing
everything being in the same hand and also as you
say the mark of are there - but I cannot see a mark


Here are two different examples

A freeform page all in a lovely sloping hand
except the places for signatures look like they
are in a different hand or pen but still all the same

this is St Geo Hanover Square

<http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lankshear/Lankshear/1808JohnLankWedPearson.htm>;

And this is on the pre 1837 form but everything
looks like the same hand and has two mark of
without mark as far as I can see

<http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lankshear/Lankshear/1825_elizabeth_lankshear_marriag.htm>;

Fantastic to have both of these but the witnesses
were no help as church organised not friends or
relatives

A little while we did discuss some IGI entries
which were BT copies and had different forenames
for the groom compared to the a check of actual
registers.


Ron Lankshear -Sydney NSW (from London-Shepherds
Bush/Chiswick)
try my links
http://freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lankshear/

On 2010-02-16 8:02 PM, JFHH wrote:
>
> Your post inspired me to check the marriage of my own great great
> grandfather: Thomas HENLEY=Martha UNWIN at St.George's H.S.,
> 17th.July,1832.
> Pleased to find it there [I obtained a certificate many years ago from
> the church].
> The most obvious clue in the Ancestry Image that this is of a BT is that
> all the entries are in the same immaculate handwriting!Nor are there any
> "the mark of".
>
> Mind you, this anxiety about BTs is interesting, considering that most
> of us have been content for years with GRO certificates and census
> enumerators' returns, al of which have been transcripts of the originals!
>
> Regards
> John Henley
>
>

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