General Genealogy 
Findmypast: “When England play, you don’t pay!”(0)
This is a brilliant idea: findmypast.co.uk are providing FREE access to most of the data in their Full subscription data (including the 1911 census) during the England World Cup matches.
Full Story»Thank you FreeREG!
I had a very pleasant surprise the other day. A visitor to this site, who volunteers for FreeREG, contacted me to tell me that there is a transcription of a marriage record for William Jeary of Stiffkay (sic) and Elizabeth Lane of Binham, both single, by licence on 15 Feb 1738/39 in Baconsthorpe.
Parish Registers Sometimes Provide Brief Glimpses of Personalities
While looking through the Marriages register of Wells-Next-The-Sea for one of the Jary marriages, I came across the following. As the marriage was by licence, the space left to fill in the names and dates of the Banns was left empty. The post office comment looks to have been added at an unknown time after the marriage was recorded. It is in a different handwriting and what looks to be pencil rather than ink.
Citing the source of Norfolk Parish Register images at the FamilySearch Pilot Site
I spent a large part of the past weekend happily going through the Parish Register images available on the LDS FamilySearch pilot site. I realised when I started saving some of them, however, that none of the images or registers are sourced to the Norfolk Record Office (NRO) – or if they are, I certainly can’t find the citations. There’s no mention of the PD numbers that are the NRO catalogue reference. The only information is down at the bottom of the Parish list, where it says “Collection Description: This collection is made up of parish registers of Norfolk, containing records of christening, marriage and burial entries.”