Norfolk parish records - The Genealogist

[kiterunner]

I've just seen their announcement (dated 4th Aug 2015), but I find it very confusing - they say that The Genealogist has made an agreement with Norfolk Record Office "to make Norfolk parish and other historical records available online for the first time. The registers of baptisms, marriages, burials and banns of marriage feature the majority of the parishes in Norfolk."

But nearly all Norfolk parish registers, archdeacons' transcripts and bishops' transcripts are already available free on FamilySearch, and the parish registers have recently been put on Findmypast too. FamilySearch also have some other Norfolk parish records online, such as poor law records, etc. They are browse only on FMP and mostly browse only on FamilySearch, although some on there are indexed, so I can only think that what The Genealogist are saying they will be "first" at is actually indexing them all with links directly through to the image for each indexed record. But even if this is the case, I think they are overstating it when they say that " These vital records will allow family history researchers from all over the world to search for their Norfolk ancestors online for the first time." They don't seem to give a time frame for when they will be putting them online.

http://www.thegenealogist.com/news/#latest

[HarrysMum]

I don't have Norfolk links so not sure what they are adding,but I will say their transcriptions are much better than any others.

[kiterunner]

I wonder how they know that Findmypast or FamilySearch won't have a complete index before they do, though?

[kiterunner]

Phase 1 (of 2) has been released, and is included in their "Diamond" subscription (so, not in the free "Gold" ones that people may have been offered). I see that their subscription comparison page now has an asterisk next to "parish records" which means "contains exclusive diamond content".

http://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/featuredarticles/2016/fully-searchable-norfolk-parish-records-now-online-312/

This link takes you to the list of parishes included:
http://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/coverage/parish-records/norfolk/#includes

[Phoenix]

Family Search's record is partial and patchy, to say the least.

The original registers are only those, so far as I can see, that were filmed prior to the fire of 1994. Lots of parishes would still have been using their 1837 marriage registers then, or, provided they had secure storage, holding on to the registers.

I find it deeply frustrating, darting between old notes and ats, particularly when I know the wording is different, or the ats don't show witnesses, or a year is unaccountably missing (besides bt years)

[kiterunner]

I just had an email from "The Genealogist" saying they have just released nearly 10 million fully searchable records with images, so I assume that is phase 2 of 2 although it doesn't seem to say so.

[Phoenix]

Now I wonder if that includes Edgefield? (Not on Family Search)

[kiterunner]

Now I wonder if that includes Edgefield?

Not according to their coverage page. :(

https://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/coverage/parish-records/norfolk/#includes

[Phoenix]

Now there's a surprise :rolleyes: