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From: "Annie Natalelli-Waloszek" <>
Subject: Re: Tompsett's royals site
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 19:08:26 +0200


OPRs in Cheshire seem to start a bit earlier, but I'm afraid also that I may have been lumping together anything that came on a microfilm, including deeds & wills to boot in my foggy little mind... but you get the drift... I wasn't that far off, now, was I? picky picky picky...

what's 52 years between friends (an overly short lifespan?)...
This was a general global theme, not a precise piece of data... but its fine to want to be as precise as possible...

... This is good; being politely called to defend one's terms, makes one more careful with them, rather than generating personal resentments...
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De : Renia <>
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Date : mercredi 4 avril 2001 11:21
Objet : Re: Tompsett's royals site


Annie Natalelli-Waloszek wrote:

> If you're looking for absolutes in the Tulgy Wood of Genealogy, you'll be disappointed a LOT... although there's no excuse for not trying to delay fractals building into a terrible day of reckoning & Ragnarok, by forcing order precision whenever possible... best stop around the 1865, when public records began to be kept officially in most countries... or about 1498 with the OPRs... & even then, nobody is safe from the occasional "creative" clerk , bungled calendar conversion, or modern typo...

Civil Registration began in England in 1837, but as you say, was later in some other countries. By OPRs, I presume you mean old Parish Records? If so, they did not begin in England until 1538, but very few of these early ones survive.

> I have a baptism recorded in OPRs as 6 June, 1666, but in the Bishop's Register as Fembuary 6 1666/7... Fembuary, as you know, is a month that occurs when you can't decide between December, January, & Febuary... when it should perhaps be June... go figure... but I'll forward your letter...

The Bishop's Transcripts were transcripts, or copies of the Parish Register, made by the priest for the Bishop. Sometimes, there is more information in them than in the register. Sometimes they were written months after the events, even from memory, with the usual transcription errors. In the original Bishop's Transcript, the entry for February will be plainly under the year 1666. Someone else's transcription of it will put it as 1666/7, to show the new calendar date, as well as the old.

Renia




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