Hi everyone,
Apologies if you are already aware - if not this new website is definitely
worth your attention.
Clearly still in its infancy in terms of available data - not unlike when
FreeBMD first appeared - this facility as it grows will have a positive
influence on our research.
If you want to test it I suggest you try known marriage samples from your
existing efforts.
David
Nottingham
-----Original Message-----
From: Anne Cole
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 12:50 PM
To: eng-lincsgen(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: [LIN] Marriage Locator
I haven't seen this mentioned on the Lincolnshire list.
Marriage Locator is a new program at
http://www.marriage-locator.co.uk/
which enables you to enter the year, quarter, volume and page number from
the GRO marriage index, in order to discover in which church that marriage
took place. This will not work for every marriage as the cardinal points for
all marriages everywhere have not been worked out.
What, you may ask, is a Cardinal Point? I did send a message to the list
some time (years?) ago with instructions on how to find a marriage using the
volume and page number as mentioned above. For this we use Cardinal Points.
If you were to take, from the Lincolnshire post 1837 marriage index, every
marriage for the first quarter of 1837 (all parishes are present for
Spalding RD which is a good example), put them in order of parish, then
compare with the GRO index (using Free BMD where you can download the
quarter in question and sort the page numbers into numerical order) you
would then see which page number(s) referred to which parish. This is the
principal, and it has to be done for every quarter of every year for every
registration district in England and Wales. Some of this work has already
been done and the result is Marriage Locator. Many of the post 1837
Lincolnshire marriages are included, and if anyone out there would like to
have a go at working out the cardinal points for a particular parish, please
let me know and I will put you in touch with the person who is organising
this, and who will be able to provide a spreadsheet template.
The actual cardinal points are the first and last marriage from a particular
parish in a particular quarter.
Anne
Anne Cole, President, Lincolnshire Family History Society
Duncalf(e)/Duncuff/Duncuft One-name Study GOONS member 513
http://www.one-name.org/profiles/duncalf.html
Lincolnshire Post 1837 Marriage Index
http://mi.lincolnshiremarriages.org.uk/
Lincolnshire Family History Society
http://www.lincolnshirefhs.org.uk
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