Template:Family records/Free look-up service
The release of baptism registers for Jersey's Church of England churches by Jersey Heritage to Ancestry in 2016 meant that vital historical documents which were previously locked away from public view in the vaults of Jersey Archive were in the public domain. Regrettably these registers, containing records of the most important events in the lives of our ancestors, are still inaccessible to those without an Ancestry subscription.
To coincide with the addition of the new records to Jerripedia's already extensive online collection, we started a free service to look up register entries on behalf of our users. This has been used extensively and very successfully since it was introduced.
The service is limited to one request per email address at a time and covers two types of search
- An attempt to find an elusive record which researchers believe should be in our index, but is not there, possibly because it was incorrectly transcribed
- A search for extra information which may be contained in the original register entry but has not been copied to our index
We have encouraged a two-way exchange of information, to help us improve on the accuracy of our index, so, as our article explaining this service in detail indicates, priority is given to requests accompanied by information drawing attention to errors located in other records, or providing extra details.
