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From: "R. Rix" <>
Subject: RE: Monk Soham, etc.
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 1997 10:36:01 -0500 (EST)

Hi Everyone:

You may recall that a couple of weeks back I queried Mr Gwyn Thomas, Senior
Area Archivist for the Suffolk Records Office about information in its SRO
Guide. The Guide states that the Parish Registers for Monk Soham start at
1712, but IGI extractions go back to 1565, so where did the Mormons get the
earlier data from?

Here is the reply.

>From:

>X400-Recipients:
>Date: Fri, 7 Nov 97 11:40:10 +0000

>
>I have consulted our Ipswich office, as Monk Soham comes into
>their catchment area, and they are quite mystified by your
>enquiry. The information on the IGI coverage is taken from the
>Mormons' "Parish and Vital Records List". As the Record Office
>has no evidence of a surviving register from 1565 (or any kind
>of transcript) we can only assume that the information pre-1712
> was "Patron submitted", rather than taken from a systematic trawl
> of the parish registers. Our normal practice in these cases is to
> refer enquirers to the Genealogical Society: Temple Department,
> Special Services, 50E North Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah
> 84150, USA
>
> I hope this helps. We should have spotted the discrepancy in the
> dates and we will amend them in the forthcoming new edition of the
> Guide.
>
> Gwyn Thomas

In other words, there are no records for Monk Soham before 1712, except for
any individual records that may may have been submitted to the Mormons over
the years.

Regards,

Richard Rix
Toronto

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