Westminster parish records - findmypast

[ElizabethHerts]

http://www.findmypast.co.uk/content/news/westminster

They are on line today! Haven't looked yet.

[kiterunner]

Ooh, thanks for that, Elizabeth! I checked first thing this morning and there was nothing new, but they must have sneaked them on after that!

[kiterunner]

Oh dear, I'm having trouble with them at the moment - error messages when I try to view an image, and some baptisms which are listed on FamilySearch as taking place at St James Westminster in the period supposedly covered don't seem to be on there at all. It could be that FamilySearch is wrong especially as they don't have exact dates, just a year, so maybe taken from an index of some sort.

[ElizabethHerts]

I haven't found anything at all yet. I'm going to have to trawl through the families and make a list of people to look up.
I looked up one marriage in 1855 and they don't seem to go that far.

[kiterunner]

There is a list of parishes and dates covered so far:
http://www.findmypast.co.uk/cms/fmp/pdf/Westminster-parish-records-coverage.pdf

[ElizabethHerts]

I'm not doing very well with mine, but it seems they will be adding to what's online over the next few months:

"This exciting launch sees the first release of the parish records in findmypast.co.uk's Westminster Collection. The remaining parish records will go live in the coming months, along with cemetery registers, wills, rate books, settlement examinations, workhouse admission and discharge books, bastardy, orphan and apprentice records, charity documents, and militia and watch records."

The extras look interesting.

[Phoenix]

Having followed families in the rates books, I really want to see that collection to find out where George Lanning went after 11 November 1851: http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/proslav/prfiesa28t.html

[kiterunner]

I'm sure the list of churches and dates covered has been changed since I first looked at it! I noted down some of the churches that I thought appeared somewhere or other in my tree so I could look at them first, and I've written down "St Geo Chapel Mayfair 1735-1754 only", but that one isn't in the list now. St Margaret Westminster is another one that I wrote down but has now disappeared :confused:

[kiterunner]

Hmm, their news item says, "More than 50 Westminster churches are included in the records published today, including St Anne, Soho, St Clement Danes, St George Hanover Square, St James Westminster, St Margaret Westminster, St Martin-in-the-Fields, St Mary-le-Strand and St Paul Covent Garden."

But when you look at the PDF of coverage, there are only about 20 different churches listed.

[ElizabethHerts]

I've actually found one marriage and the image of the register. It's for St Clement Danes in 1776.

It didn't give me any additional information, though.

[kiterunner]

I'm still getting error messages when I try to view the images, and this is on a different computer from before and I can't find marriages that should be there. I suspect the coverage list is still wrong.

[Janet]

Have you tried logging off and signing back in again, Kite? It might make you nervous that you wouldn't get back in again at all, I suppose, but I'm thinking that something on your computer (or theirs) might be blindfolding you and keeping you in the pre-release world. I think if it were me I might even sign off FMP, restart my computer, and then sign back into FMP again.

EDIT: If you're signed in on two computers, I suppose you might have to do both to really test if this works or not.

[Phoenix]

Not the news you want to hear, Kite, but if you go from transcript to image, that seems to work.

[kiterunner]

Thanks for that, Phoenix, and Janet, I tried signing out and in again and I got a survey to fill in which was a lot of fun but I'm not sure whether it actually submitted at the end. Anyway, yes, I managed to view an image by going from the transcription. Phew. I don't think much of the Westminster stuff I want to look at is on there yet though.

[kiterunner]

This has been updated now - they say they have added millions of new parish records bringing the total to 3 million. (I suppose that could add up if there were less than 1 million before? Can't remember the original number, anyway...) definitely worth having a look for anyone who you couldn't find before:

http://www.findmypast.co.uk/content/news/westminster-mar13

(If only I could remember who I wanted to look up in the first place!)

[Sue from Southend]

I should have guessed that when I let my FMP sub run out last month they would add some really interesting records!:mad: :d

Does anyone know of any free credits offers anywhere?

[Just Gillian]

Thanks Kite.

Sue - I received this link in TNA newsletter today for 20 credits -

http://www.findmypast.co.uk/content/offers/criminals?WT.mc_id=enews0313&dm_i=MAN,1BF11,3BPK9T,4GKC5,1

It won't work if you have taken up an offer before, but I had a spare FMP account from a time when I needed to access the site from my local library and had forgotten my log-in details and it worked on that.

[Sue from Southend]

Thanks Kite.

Sue - I received this link in TNA newsletter today for 20 credits -

http://www.findmypast.co.uk/content/offers/criminals?WT.mc_id=enews0313&dm_i=MAN,1BF11,3BPK9T,4GKC5,1

It won't work if you have taken up an offer before, but I had a spare FMP account from a time when I needed to access the site from my local library and had forgotten my log-in details and it worked on that.

Thanks Gillian, I'll have a look. Not sure if it will work on a lapsed subscription but there may be ways round that ;)!

[kiterunner]

These have just been updated.

[Chris in Sussex]

Thanks

Just wish they would hurry up and put the wills online. They promised them 'soon' about 4 years ago :(

Chris