News Archive 2006

17 January 2006
New Pictures in the Ancestral Gallery
Have a look in our download section (requires password).

18 January 2006
New Marchant Gedcom File
The new gedcom file can now be downloaded.

22 January 2006
New Password for Associate Members
As regular visitors will notice we have again overhauled the website to reflect our new Associate Membership. If you are a member you should receive a new global password which gives you access to virtually everything on the site.

22 January 2006
Transcription Team
Here we have to speak a few words of praise for the amazing dedication shown by our www Transcription Team. In the last couple of months they have produced nearly 250,000 words spread across 4 projects. We feel we have found a winning formula as this valuable work will increase our output of books enormously. Without their help we might never have contemplated tackling the 53 year diary of Rev Cary Borrer. As it is we have already dealt with an estimated 20%.

We still need volunteers. If you are interested please use our contact form to apply. Non-members are welcome.

3 March 2006
Connecting the Marchant families

...of Ardingly, East Grinstead, Hurstpierpoint, Mayfield, Rotherfield and Eastbourne

For many years some of us have been trying to link the various branches of these families. Does anybody out there have any new information? Contact us here.

3 March 2006
New will and document transcripts available on the website

We have just added some 40 new transcripts to our website with more to come next month. See our general reference download section.

3 March 2006
IGI in Excel form newly available on the website

In 1995 we downloaded a number of specific Sussex names from the IGI database in Excel form. We have, for instance, the whole Marchant family for Sussex over hundreds of years in one document. This has been sorted and enhanced over the years so caution is called for when using it but it is a good tool for establishing whole family relationships as long as you verify the results. Unfortunately we only have a limited number of names but this facility is probably still available at Mormon Temples. See our general reference download section.

3 March 2006
Family Database

The database has grown again in the last month but we will not be uploading a new version until the end of March. This month we have done a lot of work on the Borrer and Hodson families in conjunction with our work on the Borrer Diary Project. The current database can be downloaded by associate members at www.hurst-hsg.net . Non-members can get a view of the content by going to Researched Surnames on the left-hand side of our Home Page. We would like to thank Sydney G. Smith of Orpington, Kent for the FH data contributed on his behalf by Joe Marchant of Australia

3 March 2006
Ongoing Projects

During the last month our worldwide transcription team has made huge inroads into the Borrer Diary so that we now have 267,000 words “in the can”. When we started this project it looked as though it would take a number of years but we are now confident that we will be able to publish a book and CD Rom next year.

For this project we still need transcribers, proofreaders and genealogists if anybody wants to sign up. If you feel you would like to join our Internetional team please email abbo700@hotmail.com or write to:

Anthony Bower
Ruseler Weg 2
21033 Hamburg
Germany
Telephone: +4940 725 43118

9 June 2006
New: Transcribers' Corner
We now have a transcribers' corner at the Hurst HSG website. Transcribers can download files to work on here. For the moment this section is devoted to our major project - the diary of Rector Carey Hampton Borrer. This section is separately passworded and is only accessible to our team of Transcribers and Proofreaders.

25 June 2006
New Wills and Documents
We have added new wills and documents to the Incidental Documents download section. Please note, that the new documents appear at the end of the list (not in chronological order).

25 June 2006
The Diary of Carey Hampton Borrer
As many of you will now we are working on a major project at the moment - the diary of Carey Hampton Borrer.

We still need volunteers to help us transcribe and proofread this massive document which will produce some 650,000 words spread over more than 50 years. So far we have transcribed about 70%. If you have some spare time and enthusiasm please contact us here.

26 June 2006
Over the Hills and Far Away back in print!
By popular request we have just arranged a re-print of

„Over the Hills and Far Away“
A Hurstpierpoint Soldier in Wellington's Army
by Peter Berresford Ellis

We have maintained the original price of £5.95.

26 June 2006
Hurstpierpoint School “To be larned, not washed”
Ian Nelson’s latest book is due to appear within the next few days.
Ian retires as a governor of the school this year and his book has been meticulously researched and written in his usual very readable style.

It will cost £12.50 but we cannot take final orders until we know the final price with p+p.

26 June 2006
Frederick Weekes' Diary
Frederick’s diary will be appearing later this year under the joint editorship of Ian Nelson and Anthony Bower.

Along with other valuable material this diary was kindly donated to the new Hurstpierpoint Museum by one of our members Astrid Bucknall. It was written between 1837 and 1852 and describes the life of a Hurstpierpoint gentleman farmer.