BeeE586
29-05-2010, 12:57 PM
I did not wish to impose on the thread started by Martin, and which I have only recently discovered, but is there online a Strays Index ?
Time was before the internet when every Family History Society had a Strays Co-ordinator who collected stray events within their own area and sent them to the Federation of FHS which acted as a clearing house and passed them on to the relevant county co-ordinator. I acted in this capacity for the Nottinghamshire FHS for about seven years in the Eighties, and several volumes of Strays in book form were published.
By far the largest number were from census, but also from registers, Parish Chest material, Apprenticeship registers, MI's newspaper announcements - whatever. Much of the need for such publications has gone with regard to Census, but there are centuries before 1841 when if you 'lose' a family you have absolutely no idea where to look.
Perhaps the FFHS still operate a Clearing House policy, I don't know; perhaps there is an index somewhere - again I don't know- but if there is not, and Martin or someone else would like to take it on, an index of pre 1837 strays would be useful.
Earlier this year I began a project of my own, extracting stray marriage details from the CD of Nottinghamshire Marriage Licences and was astonished to find just how many there are and of what complexity. Couples from two totally different counties marrying in Notts. - how would you ever find that without help ? This project has been temporarily abandoned because of my accident but I will get back to it and pass on the information to the relevant counties, or to anyone else who might like to build up such an index.
Eileen
Time was before the internet when every Family History Society had a Strays Co-ordinator who collected stray events within their own area and sent them to the Federation of FHS which acted as a clearing house and passed them on to the relevant county co-ordinator. I acted in this capacity for the Nottinghamshire FHS for about seven years in the Eighties, and several volumes of Strays in book form were published.
By far the largest number were from census, but also from registers, Parish Chest material, Apprenticeship registers, MI's newspaper announcements - whatever. Much of the need for such publications has gone with regard to Census, but there are centuries before 1841 when if you 'lose' a family you have absolutely no idea where to look.
Perhaps the FFHS still operate a Clearing House policy, I don't know; perhaps there is an index somewhere - again I don't know- but if there is not, and Martin or someone else would like to take it on, an index of pre 1837 strays would be useful.
Earlier this year I began a project of my own, extracting stray marriage details from the CD of Nottinghamshire Marriage Licences and was astonished to find just how many there are and of what complexity. Couples from two totally different counties marrying in Notts. - how would you ever find that without help ? This project has been temporarily abandoned because of my accident but I will get back to it and pass on the information to the relevant counties, or to anyone else who might like to build up such an index.
Eileen