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Projects
A Fantastic FFHS ProjectThe FFHS is delighted to announce that they have arranged with Findmypast a new, short project which will help bring in more royalty payments for societies. Following the success of using their excellent online transcription tool for the 1851 census, work will soon begin to partially transcribe records for BMDs at Sea, 1854-1888. The BMD records are not like the General Registry Office index which provides some information and a certificate has to be bought to obtain further details.
The purpose of the project will be to allow searching by virtually all fields – surname, forename, occupation, age and sex if available in the records, plus the name of the ship. This index will be connected to images of the pages from the original books to allow the researcher to check the transcription and see the extra shipping information not transcribed. Completion of the project will be by the end of May 2010.
Beryl Evans will be the project co-ordinator for Cardiganshire FHS, therefore am looking for volunteers for this completely online project. If you are interested or need further information, please contact Beryl as soon as possible in order for us to participate from the outset as this will be a shortlived project.
beryloevans@aol.com Projects Co-ordinator.
National Burial Index (NBI) Project
Cardiganshire Project Co-ordinator – Beryl EvansThe National Burial Index for England and Wales is being co-ordinated by the Federation of Family History Societies. The aim is to provide an index of burial entries recorded in English and Welsh parish, nonconformist, Roman Catholic and cemetery registers.
Cardiganshire Family History Society has already contributed over 108,000 entries to the project when the 2nd edition of the CD was published in 2004, covering burial entries for Cardiganshire up to and including 1920.
The 3rd edition of the NBI Index is to be published later this year and the Society has contributed thousands more entries from 1921 onwards.
1851 Census
Project Co-ordinator – Beryl Evans beryloevans@aol.comThe Society has been working with findmypast.co.uk in transcribing parts of the 1851 census of Cardiganshire. We were given piece no. HO107/2481 to transcribe, which included many parishes in North Pembrokeshire. The following parishes were transcribed by the Society and will eventually appear on the findmypast website.
Cardiganshire
Aber-porthBlaen-porth
Cardigan
Llandygwydd
Llangoedmor
Llechryd
Mount
Tre-main
Verwick
Pembrokeshire
BayvilBridell
Dinas
Cilgerran
Eglwyswrw
Llanfair Nant-Gwyn
Llanfihangel Penbedw
Llantood
Llanychlwydog
Maenordeifi
Meline
Moylgrove
Newport
St Dogmaels
Whitechurch
Summer projects
Project Co-ordinator – Shirley Williams ael-y-bryn@aol.com2009 Summer project will be to continue the transcript of memorial inscriptions at Ysbyty Ystwyth churchyard. Any volunteers to contact the co-ordinator.
Winter projects
Project Co-ordinator – Shirley Williams ael-y-bryn@talktalk.net2008-2009 Winter project has been the transcription of burial entries from the parish registers at The National Library of Wales for inclusion in the NBI project and also our contribution to the 1851 census as above noted.