* FindMyPast: Northaw parish registers

[t4ms]

I am finally in the next few months going to tackle a several decades old brick wall and I need to look at Hertfordshire parish registers (not available on Ancestry).

I see that Northaw is available at FindMyPast:
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/articles/w ... rish-lists

Before I pay for a subscription with my measly little Aussie dollars I'd love to know if these records are digitised or whether it's only a database. This is not a guaranteed ancestor and may be a false lead.

Cheers,

Tamara

[LizzieA]

Hi Tamara

They are digitised records (plus transcriptions) which you can either search or browse.

Enjoy!

Lizzie

[t4ms]

Hi Tamara

They are digitised records (plus transcriptions) which you can either search or browse.

Enjoy!

Lizzie

Thank you! I shall stump up the extra cash and get a three month premium subscription so I can hit the 1921 census hard

[AdrianBruce]

Tamara - for some reason I felt compelled to have a look at the Northaw registers. You may know this already but there appears to have been a serious fire there - the 1769-1812 register is only present on FMP as a transcript because the original was so badly burned. Some of the marriages are from a badly burnt PR. etc, etc.

So you may need to keep an eye out for any Bishop's Transcripts as well, to act as a cross-check...

[t4ms]

Tamara - for some reason I felt compelled to have a look at the Northaw registers. You may know this already but there appears to have been a serious fire there - the 1769-1812 register is only present on FMP as a transcript because the original was so badly burned. Some of the marriages are from a badly burnt PR. etc, etc.

So you may need to keep an eye out for any Bishop's Transcripts as well, to act as a cross-check...

Thank you so much! This explains a lot. My brick wall may remain destined to be a brick wall...

[fhtess65]

Northaw BTs available at a FamilySearch Affiliate Library or FamilySearch Centre - see the Catalogue result for Northaw at the link below:

https://www.familysearch.org/search/cat ... =394535-50

Tamara - for some reason I felt compelled to have a look at the Northaw registers. You may know this already but there appears to have been a serious fire there - the 1769-1812 register is only present on FMP as a transcript because the original was so badly burned. Some of the marriages are from a badly burnt PR. etc, etc.

So you may need to keep an eye out for any Bishop's Transcripts as well, to act as a cross-check...

Thank you so much! This explains a lot. My brick wall may remain destined to be a brick wall...

[t4ms]

Northaw BTs available at a FamilySearch Affiliate Library or FamilySearch Centre - see the Catalogue result for Northaw at the link below:

https://www.familysearch.org/search/cat ... =394535-50

Thank you! I'm not sure when or if I'll be able to go to a centre but it's good to know.