After posting my help wanted rant (help is still wanted) I have had a bit of good luck, hard luck but luck none the less. For a quick history of what I mean by hard luck is that in England there are parishes, who unto 1837ish kept records of all that went on for the Church of England. By doing this they have a stash of vital stats that are indexed online. Here is where the hard comes into play. One, the best way to find these stats is by using Ancestry.com (fee website) or Family History Centers (most commonly the one in Utah) or two, go to England and spend a summer backpacking around to each of the suspected parishes and delve deep into their archives and gamble that you might actually find something. But I, after many long hard hours, (not really many) have found a marriage register for George Charles Parsons and Martha Maria Syphus, my (I am checking to make sure this is accurate) third great grandparents who were married in England, the Pancras Parish. Imaging Hyde Park in London and go west a ways. Knowing this information I can now send off to England and for 15 pounds they will send me a copy of the certificate, that is pretty cool. I am hoping from this I will be able to get a birth record for Sylvanus Walter or Walter Sylvanus, depending on the record being looked at or how he decided to spell his name. All of this aside, it has been a very good few days and is looking better at every turn.
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