Brackell FHF

Spent a few interesting hours wandering around the two halls at Bracknell this morning. Met and talked with many friends, sorry if I missed you!

Tried very hard to see if there was any book about Excise Men, seems there is none to be found, but several people thought it would be a good idea if there was one. Any offers?

Excise Men

Spent another day at the National Archives (TNA) going through the CUST 47 microfiche. Hurrah I am now up to number 500 only two hundred to go.

Ordered, transcribed and took pictures of entries in 12 minute books I now need to go to a further 27 from the fiche completed.

So this means at least another two visits at the very least

GRO Microfiche

Went to The National Archives (TNA) at Kew today expecting to be able to see the GRO microfiche to get my Births and Deaths 2007 to current times and the Marriages 2006 onwards.

Sadly they are no longer held at Kew. They sent their fiche to the London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) They told me that the Westminster Archives also hold copies of the microfiche

Fortunately I am still ploughing through the Excise indexes CUST 47 so I had plenty to do.

Parish Register Research

Snow all gone - thank goodness. Maybe now we can get about again. Did use some of the time going through some of the parish registers on the Family History Centre Pilot website. Searched the Seaton Carew 1833-1879 and Heighington 1765-1821. Now need to find time to go through some of the others.

Just met Stephen who is my 3rd cousin and he has sent some extra details but we need to check the different dates.

Snow problems

We had to cancel the ONS meeting scheduled for 15 January and we shall now meet on Friday 19 February. Some people still had to travel through very icy streets and so we decided not to risk it. Safer to reschedule.

Another group with whom I meet who are going to perform a Marriage Challenge later in the year also cancelled their January meeting.

Our local U3A just closed down for a fortnight