[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

I did that too, but with a bit of tweaking it brought up pages and pages of results.
In fact I have segs on my behind from sitting and googly eyes from scanning the results.
Using the site takes a little getting used to Cashy.

Rowlf, most of the info I already had was from the Parish registers and the BMD website.
I have not been able to access census details before...but today I have.
The census details have filled in a lot of the gaps in the info I had, and I have been able to go back to the mid 1800s.
Really enjoyed it in a sadistic sort of way.

Aye eck Margaret tha should of sed sumat, way back before I ever started researching for Bill Turner,The Pals, and mi Accrington's Heroes, I was hanging out with Jack Broderick, who did all the work on the local parish registers, I indexed them from the late 1500' s to 1800, altogether well over 80,000 entries, Altham Church I did to 1837, I'm sure Acc Library has a copy. When the official Registrars were appointed in 1837, some wags called them babby hunters, and were not averse to playing tricks in them.
I stopped indexing them as most registers were them available on micro fiche.
Then I started researching for Bill Turner, I eventually signed up to Ancestry, and during my searches I received over 170 thank you's for correcting some of their errors, their indexing was done by people who's first language was not English, some of those errors were unbelievable, not only misspelt names but men's papers in other mens files. I packed Ancestry in over 5 years ago, but frim what I've since seen in the libray both Ancestry & Findmypast are ball akers, every time they update supposedly to make it easier, they make it harder one of biggest problems is the way Septics mangle the English language. So I can well understand Cashy's frustration, I see many when I'm the Library.