One on my interests is transcribing old baptism/ confitmation and other registers. I do this for a variety of reasons, some of which I will go into in future posts. At the moment I am transcribing the baptism registers of Our Lady& St Michael's Workington onto a searchable spreadsheet. Microsoft Excel for those who are interested. I started with the year 1838 I have now reached 1909. It has taken longer than I expected. One of the reasons being that not all priests in Victorian and Edwardian times had wonderful handwriting.
The above volume runs from 1904 to 1918 and gives you a flavour of the entries. One of the fascinations for me is that each entry tells a story. Sadly I don't have the time to follow through every entry! Copying or transcribing is not everyone's idea of fun - but I really like it!
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