Findmypast to publish original Kent parish registers online for the first time

[Katarzyna]

Some good news for those of us with Kent Ancestry - at last!!
Dick Eastman has posted this on his blog today.

https://blog.eogn.com/2018/05/22/findmypast-announces-plans-to-publish-kent-county-councils-collection-of-original-parish-registers/#more-22783

[kylejustin]

I like they are digitising actual registers. FMP has loads of transcripts, which are great, but nothing beats seeing the register for yourself.

[gloryer]

I just hope they are actually digitising the registers and not just publishing whats already on medwaycityark

[Katarzyna]

It's in the link Gloryer - The new online collections will be created from over 2,500 handwritten parish registers dating from the early 16th century up to 1918.
Digitised

[Anne in Carlisle]

Cor, lucky Kent people. I wish they'd get on and do Bedfordshire. The whole of my father's side of the family come frm there .... all of them since 1689! Transcriptions and visits tobtye archive are good but online PR images would be wonderful. Such a long way away to visit regularly!
Anne

[Bo the Bodger]

Really looking forward to this - my father's family is Kent based