Publications
PRTS Are Changing!, by Roy Winchester and Joe Bush, published September 2014 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 21 no. 3, article, pp.120-121) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/508853]
Preview:Parish Register Transcription Society are handing over the production of their Sussex parish register CDs to SFHG who will become the sole supplier.
RTS began in 1999 as a not-for-profit organisation with no particular ties to any county and with the aim of publishing transcripts of parish registers and manuscript records to assist family history researchers. The society has no subscribed membership, but consists of a very small group of volunteers who assist the committee by transcribing. Being an entirely non-profit making organisation, all proceeds from sales of published material are used to fund further transcriptions and other projects.
RTS began in 1999 as a not-for-profit organisation with no particular ties to any county and with the aim of publishing transcripts of parish registers and manuscript records to assist family history researchers. The society has no subscribed membership, but consists of a very small group of volunteers who assist the committee by transcribing. Being an entirely non-profit making organisation, all proceeds from sales of published material are used to fund further transcriptions and other projects.
The Sussex Family Historian - The First 40 Years, by Roy Winchester, published March 2015 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 21 no. 5, article, pp.234-235) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508855]
Preview:In 2013 not only did the Sussex Family History Group celebrate its fortieth anniversary but also, with the December edition of the Sussex Family Historian, our journal completed 40 years of publication: 20 volumes and 160 editions. Quite an achievement, I think. This seemed an ideal opportunity to update our searchable compilation of the Journal and create the 3rd Edition. SFHG member Dave Lee recently took on the task of scanning and indexing the pages of the journal and later, after a bit of arm twisting, also agreed to take on the task of programming. Dave realised the search results included duplicate entries when the same name appeared several times on a page. These multiple entries have been removed to help make the search results more meaningful (a substantial task).There are now over 65,000 names in the index, 5,560 articles on 7300 pages. 'Eagle eyed' readers may notice a reduction in the number of names from our previous version, however this is due to the removal of duplicates as now the names from another 24 issues have been included. Also added is the option to show or hide the names of associated places when a name search is undertaken.