tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post5127101972273241832..comments2024-03-26T11:22:41.940-07:00Comments on Genea-Musings: Follow-Up Friday - Helpful and Interesting Reader CommentsRandy Seaverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17477703429102065294noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-54807925977287483612012-08-03T15:15:18.131-07:002012-08-03T15:15:18.131-07:00@ Louis,
I'm sure you have heard this from m...@ Louis, <br /><br />I'm sure you have heard this from me before. Why should it matter if it takes me 10 seconds or 10 minutes? <br /><br />For that matter, we don't all practice genealogy the same way why should ALL of us have to agree on one procedure for the purpose of recording our sources in order for there to be interoperability? <br /><br />I take the time necessary to understand the source--for it IS the basis of the actual "facts" themselves. <br />If technology can speed up the process, then that is great, but in my work, sources are not cookie cutter critters. <br /><br />As I recall, the point of Geir Thorud's work was to say that we don't have to all do it the same way--it's possible to have an inclusive standard that supports interoperability.GeneJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02627640410669978708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-84031152043611837302012-08-03T14:54:29.422-07:002012-08-03T14:54:29.422-07:00Re: The time it takes to enter a citation:
100 se...Re: The time it takes to enter a citation:<br /><br />100 seconds!? I would think it would take much less time to enter the actual event or fact itself. That is what people are trying to enter, but the citation then becomes a burden on them ... slowing them down in their attempts to enter the data.<br /><br />There needs to be methods added to speed up the citation entry. It needs to somehow provide you with suggestions or drop-down lists once you've typed a few letters. <br /><br />Whatever is done, the process must be simplified to take no more than 20 seconds or it will not only discourage sourcing, but will discourage the entering of the data altogether.<br /><br />LouisLouis Kesslerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11704667321407909489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-37537934879568672742012-08-03T14:40:22.348-07:002012-08-03T14:40:22.348-07:00In my opinion those Welsh parishes that have opted...In my opinion those Welsh parishes that have opted out are being silly. I have not heard any information about why they have opted out? Is it royalty rates for the images? Is it some kind of misguided dislike of genealogists?<br /><br />I know there were some parochial church councils that would not allow the Mormons to film registers for religious reasons. I really hope that attitude has not persisted against Findmypast as it would be fundamentally wrong and completely pointless as Findmypast is not a Mormom organisation.<br /><br />From my perspective the naysayers are simply cutting off their own noses to spite their faces.David Newtonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-73811606232645808412012-08-03T12:45:32.787-07:002012-08-03T12:45:32.787-07:00Findmypasts's collection of Welsh parish regis...Findmypasts's collection of Welsh parish registers will not include all that are available -- some parishes have declined to have their records put online, e.g. Llanbeblig. There is a list of these parishes at http://www.findmypast.co.uk/content/welsh-collection/parish-registers.<br /><br />And of course, Wales is also difficult because of the high proportion of non-conformists, and the paucity of non-conformist registers available. FamilySearch has indexed those non-conformist registers that were centrally deposited, or they can be searched at the following pay-per-view site: http://www.bmdregisters.co.uk/ but very many of them are still in the care of the relevant congregation or -- most likely -- lost without trace.ColeValleyGirlhttp://www.genquiry.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-66538862205082510032012-08-03T10:31:58.178-07:002012-08-03T10:31:58.178-07:00On the parish register issue again England and Wal...On the parish register issue again England and Wales are completely separate from Scotland. Scotslandpeople.gov.uk has a very, very extensive parish register collection.<br /><br />For England and Wales the best coverage of actual images and indexes is a combination of Ancestry, Findmypast and Familysearch. Individual family history societies have also produced extensive indexes, and quite a few of those, although far from all, have found their way onto Findmypast.<br /><br />Findmypast have a deal with the Federation of Family History Societies where many of the databases that were on the FFHS subscription site which folded a few years ago and was merged into Findmypast.<br /><br />No one site has a complete parish register index and set of images for England yet. Findmypast does have a deal with the National Library of Wales which will see it have an essentially complete set of register images and indexes for Wales when completed.<br /><br />Considering individual areas of England Findmypast has fully indexed images of Westminster, Cheshire, the Plymouth area, and images of the Canterbury area which will get an index a bit later this year. Ancestry has fully indexed images of the rest of the London area outside Westminster, Dorset, Warwickshire, the Liverpool area, the area of Lancashire covered by the Lancaster portion of its archives and West Yorkshire. Familysearch's images can be difficult to get to due to the ridiculous copyright situation referred to in the main post. They have indexes of Cheshire, Derbyshire, Dorset, Essex, the Manchester area, Norfolk and Warwickshire. They have images of Cornwall, Durham, Kent, Norfolk and Northumberland. At the moment live Familysearch indexing projects include more of Derbyshire and Dorset and Sussex.<br /><br />Outside of the big three images of registers in the Medway area of Kent and of Essex parish registers can be found on independent sites either associated with a family history society or council.<br /><br />Rumours are that Surrey will find its way onto Ancestry at some point in the future, but beyond that I don't know. Familysearch will of course keep working through indexing more and more of their microfilms. I reckon it will be at least a decade before a reasonably complete indexed set of English parish registers can be found online. That is due to the sheer volume of work involved and the number of jurisdictions involved. Still that will be a remarkable situation and the current way things are is, like so many things in genealogy, a vast improvement on even 5 years ago.David Newtonnoreply@blogger.com