Many thanks for the reply.
Is there any chance of getting a copy of the list of
numbers and their corresponding registration districts and
counties?
I guessed that was why the ancient counties had been used.
I'm probably one of only a handful of people who would want
information at the level of registration county.
Nevertheless I think people doing one-name studies would
find the details of the registration or Union counties
useful, especially if they are counting births or deaths in
the indexes at the FRC. Since these are arranged by
Registraiton County.
The bigger question is why oh why, when they had the
chance, did the Victorians, when the introduced the New
Poor Law, make the Union and the Union County the basis of
an entirely new system of local government. Or is it simply
that they wanted to make our lives difficult?
David Alan Gatley (Dr)
On Tue, 11 May 1999 14:55:15 +0100 "Woollard, Matthew G"
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The first number on the right hand side of the GSU microfiche is, as it says
> on the microfiche, the piece number, which refers to location at the PRO.
>
> A 'rough and ready' key for piece number to Registration County this is
> currently under construction at the University of Essex.
>
> The other problem is knotty. Sometimes, the GSU finding aids refer to
> registration county as well as to ancient county, i.e., the person is in the
> index twice. (This may not be the case for the published indices, but is
> certainly the case for the machine-readable version.)
>
> For the purposes of the GSU and the FFHS it was not considered necessary for
> the registration county to be included in the machine-readable transcript
> because almost nobody who researches their own family is interested/aware of
> registration county of birth/residence. Considerable effort went into
> "converting" registration counties to ancient counties to make the life of
> many thousands of geneaologists easier.
>
> Matthew Woollard
>
>
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