Liverpool & South West Lancashire FHS - Forum

It's been really great to have them and saves a fortune in certs but there are huge gaps and usually on a year I want.

Does anybody know if Liverpool Record office are planning to let Ancestry have use of the missing ones or is this to do with the LDS church who microfilmed them?

Do Record Offices receive fees from Ancestry, Find My Past and all the other sites to use their records?

I understand your frustration over missing records I started a similar thread here:-

http://forum.liverpool-genealogy.org.uk ... 24&t=13073


Blue

Ah yes I see it but that's a few years ago now surely it should be updated by now.

Did you see my post about how Family Search records will be available to view the images in the next few weeks? Just this morning I went for a look to see if it had been updated and clicked on a Welsh record which took me to Find My Past (it didn't mention that in the blog).

I couldn't see any Liverpool records that had images but I know for sure there are many Liverpool records I'd like to get my hand on that have been microfilmed.

Ancestry might lose out to FMP if this goes ahead, though I don't know what years and which churches the LDS covered back in the day.

Family Search have been providing links to collections on other sites for a while. The FMP records are still pay to view or sub only if you are directed there from Family Search. Family Search are trying to make as many images available to view they already have a lot of images on their site. I've registered as sometimes they want you signed in before you view some of their records.


Blue

This is the link to the post with the blog in case you missed it.



http://www.forum.liverpool-genealogy.or ... 23&t=14929

Yes I did see that. I don't think they have any Liverpool parish record images on there yet though do they? They have a world of records to choose from so we'll see what happens.


Blue

As far as I am aware it is Ancestry who are at fault not Liverpool. They have not indexed the relevant years which are missing. They have also been into the record office and scanned records after 1921 Marriages and 1906 Baptisms. If you look at the coverage on Ancestry they have the records they just have not indexed them. This is what I think they do. get a vast majority of records indexed and release them and then move onto something else. For example I think they are concentrating on WW1 records etc. And yes, The various record office get so many pence per hit. It is the only way Archives are surviving.

Thanks Katie, I will message them but I don't suppose I will get the answer I'm looking for.

It's very frustrating when you find a marriage with the right names of the father's in the Free BMD and a transcribed entry on Anc or the IGI but no other information that you have no option but to buy a marriage certificate at £9.25 a pop when really all you want is the occupation and street address of the father to verify. I had to do that last night as I couldn't go any further and I don't just pick up Anc hints willy nilly though no doubt it's probably right in this case, I don't intend spending time and money barking up the wrong tree!! There are some other member trees with the same information but none of the seem to have actually bought a marriage certificate just picked up the hints.