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Old 27-10-13, 11:48
ElizabethHerts ElizabethHerts is offline
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Default FMP Lincolnshire records are a mess

I just don't understand how FMP messed up so much with the Lincolnshire records. They should have just put the registers online in the order the pages appear. But no. Every parish I have looked at has issues.

Upton cum Kexby



Parish:Upton Cum Kexby
Event:Baptisms & Burials
Year range:1583-1679

The drop-down menu has:

Baptisms 1584-1586
Baptisms and burials 1583-1679
Baptisms and marriages 1582-1669
Baptisms, burials and marriages 1564-1753
Baptisms, marriages and burials 1597-1705
Burials 1670-1670
Burials and marriages 1584-1669
Burials, baptisms and marriages 1597-1597
Burials, marriages and baptisms 1654-1655
Marriages 1755-1836
Marriages and baptisms 1579-1579
Marriages, baptisms and burials 1566-1748

If you click on on of those you are presented with a series of images, or, in some cases, just one image or a couple of images.
If you have a baptism in 1600, for example, it's not clear which menu you should click on. There appear to be 6 options (if I'm counting correctly!)

Here is an example:

Baptisms and burials 1583-1679
image 1 page 37 of the register. Can't spot a year but in late 1500s
image 2 1592 burials 1593 baptisms
image 4 1596 burials 1597 baptisms
image 5 1663 baptisms 1664 christenings (NOTE THE JUMP FROM 1597 to 1663)
image 6 1678 burials 1679 christenings
no image no. 7!!
image 8 1763 baptisms and burials (another big jump)
image 9 1766 burials 1767 baptisms
image 10 1768 baptisms and burials 1769 baptisms
image 11 1769 burials 1770 baptisms and burials

and on it goes!
For each parish there are lots of images - locating the one you want is like hunting for a needle in a haystack. Other parishes have the same issues.

Last edited by ElizabethHerts; 27-10-13 at 12:06.
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