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PAROCHIAL REGISTERS Having been engaged at times for the past fifteen months in looking through parochial registers for genealogical purposes, I have, like every one else of the same experience, come to the conclusion that the invaluable matter contained in them ought, without further loss of time, to be put beyond the reach of destruction by fire, malice, carelessness, or any other enemy, besides being made more available for general use. Like many others, I have also cogitated on a feasible and ready means for making a good start in editing and printing these manuscripts, believing that if once a good and general start be made, the end so ardently longed for will not be far off. As the result, I venture to suggest a scheme which I believe would be popular and commercially successful, two great elements towards a satisfactory solution of the problem. My idea is to enlist the valuable services of the local press. The success of the Gloucestershire Notes and Queries and other kindred enterprises, such as the Rev. J. H. Stanning's publication of the Leigh registers in the parish magazine, have suggested this to me. I will, if I may so far trespass on your valuable space, touch on some of the various pros and cons attendant on such an idea, in the hope that your more experienced and learned readers may make such suggestions as may perfect the scheme and put it in operation if it should be considered at all practicable. There is first the consent of the custodians of these documents to be obtained. In some few instances this might be denied, but they would be very few, for a general appreciation of their value exists, and most of the clergy would be only too glad to know that the contents of their registers were put beyond the possibility of extinction.* Some might object that by thus throwing them open they would diminish their fees; but a little reflection will show that they would be bringing to light entries for which search may have been made for years, and that the bringing them to light would increase rather than diminish the fees, for many would be only too thankful to know of such entries in order to get certified copies. Some would, perhaps, object on the score that it would give annoyance to their parishioners, by exciting the impertinent curiosity of their neighbours in the bygones of their families. I think it might be conceded that the publication should not extend to a later date than 1800, and that all entries particularized by "filius populi" and the like should be shorn of these comments; such precautions would, no doubt, remove any reasonable objections. Next we have to enlist the proprietors of the papers themselves. I think it can be readily demonstrated that such an addition to their contents could not fail to increase their circulation; it would, I imagine, induce many, both rich and poor, to subscribe who would not otherwise do so, for the sake of obtaining information so interesting and valuable of the past history of their families. Many living at a distance, whether in England, America, or the colonies, would be grateful and very ready to subscribe to a publication that would enable them (especially those founding families in a new country) to treasure up and lay by for their posterity such interesting and valuable mementoes of their connexion with and descent from the mother country. Public libraries, archæological societies, and private individuals at home and abroad (in America particularly), would, no doubt, subscribe to a reprint of the same in a portable form; and here it might be suggested that all reprints should be of a uniform size, for binding several such together and for the greater convenience of libraries. The publishers would soon see the advantage of making use of such a medium as your own to let it be generally known to those who might be interested in their particular parish that such a I have found every facility afforded me, with all courtesy, by the clergy to whom I have applied for permission to search; and this encourages one to feel that they would assist as much as lay in their power. |