Devon Parish Registers - findmypast

[kiterunner]

Covering the part of Devon which was not already included in their "Plymouth and West Devon" collection. Includes the images.

Devon Marriages (http://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/devon-marriages?_ga=1.121394251.2137666626.1356288841)
Devon Banns Registers (http://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/devon-banns-registers-1538-1915?_ga=1.121394251.2137666626.1356288841)
Devon Baptisms (http://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/devon-baptisms?_ga=1.95992671.2137666626.1356288841)
Devon Burials (http://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/devon-burials?_ga=1.95992671.2137666626.1356288841)

And you can search the baptisms by parents' names!!!

[Shona]

:):):)

Thank you for posting that news.

Just dipped in an found loads of records for the Kerslakes which I hadn't seen before. Thanks to being able to search by the name of the parents, also traced one family to a different village which filled in a 10-year gap in the baptisms.

[Lindsay]

Thanks for pointing this out!

It looks like there's some from Kingsteignton at last :)

[Phoenix]

Just found an ancestor's sig in 1650s! :D:D:D

Thank you for putting up the links, Kite!

[Asa]

Thank you! I've found my 4 x great grandmother baptised at Venn Ottery :D

[Langley Vale Sue]

Thank you! I've found my 4 x great grandmother baptised at Venn Ottery :D

Well done Asa. I wish I could find mine in Venn Ottery! :(
I've looked for almost all my OH's Devon ancestors that I have missing and only managed to find one! It seems all the parishes I need (that I haven't already got) aren't there.
Will have to have another search session later to see if I have more luck.

[Asa]

I've still a lot missing but this latest update is smashing for me :) Hope there's another one soon

[Asa]

Sue, I notice if you select parish you seem to have to select eg Kingsteignton and Kingsteington St Michael

[Kit]

Thanks Kate. I'm going to see how far back I can get OH's lot now. :)

[Kit]

Interesting - the transcripts and the images don't match. Just found a baptism image that states parents names only but the transcription says the father is a surgeon. Surname on transcription is spelled differently too.

[Lindsay]

While looking at the Devon Records Office site, I noticed this...

'This first batch of digitised parish registers were released online on 30 May 2014. Note that none of the digitised registers from North Devon Record Office which have been supplied to Find My Past have yet been put online....We have not been informed by Find My Past when further Devon parish register images will be added. We assume that family historians and others will eventually be able to access high quality images of the majority of Devon’s parish register entries online.'

So, it sounds like FindMypast have more records ready digitised but not yet released.

http://www.devon.gov.uk/index/councildemocracy/record_office/pronline.htm#sthash.8QHRqBAN.dpuf

[kiterunner]

That's interesting, Lindsay.

[Kit]

Hopefully they will put them online soon. I wonder if they are transcribed though? They may have images but not transcriptions.

[Phoenix]

May explain why they are not released yet. There is certainly a lot from the south of the county not yet available

[kiterunner]

These have been updated today: Over 705,000 more baptism records, "over 308,585" (eh?) marriage records and over 164,000 banns records have been added. They don't make it clear whether any more burial records have been added. They have also got the Devon Wills Index created by the Devon Wills Project (also available on British Origins and on GENUKI.)

[kiterunner]

Devon Parish Registers on Findmypast have just been updated with over 240,000 records added. The list of parishes linked to below shows "New" next to those which have just been added.

https://www.findmypast.co.uk/articles/devon-parish-records-coverage

[Phoenix]

Thanks, Kite. One day Malborough records will go back a little further, but clearly not just yet