Knowing some readers have an interest in East Sussex, here's a longish extract from a Facebook post by Sussex genealogist Clive Reedman to the Guild of One-Name Studies Group.
We are delighted that genealogy website Ancestry is digitising some of our most-used holdings. This will improve accessibility - the pandemic has made us all really appreciate digital resources - and provide useful income for The Keep. Three members of staff employed by Ancestry ... have been working at The Keep since September, they started by digitising the East Sussex pansh registers. When they become available via the Ancestry website, the scans will show all entries from the earliest 16th-century registers through to 1917 for baptisms, 1942 for marriages and banns, 1992 for bunals, and 1924 for confirmations.
Not only will they be accessible to Ancestry subscribers from home but they will also be available free on site for all visitors to The Keep and East Sussex Libraries through our People's Network computers.
The team ... have already completed work on the parish registers. They're now working on electoral registers and poll books .... They will then tackle the huge senes of probate records. It is anticipated that the project will take up to a year but some records will be made available dunng 2021.
Very good news for all of us interested in chasing down our Sussex ancestors.
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