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Kent

A great deal of family history research in Kent can be carried out remotly. As well as thousands remotely. As well as thousands of free-to-view images of parish registers and Bishops' Transcripts available via FamilySearch (familysearch.org ), there's a huge amount of digitised material on Findmypast (findmypast.co.uk) thanks to agreements with archives and family history societies.

A tranche of records released in 2020 on Findmypast included the registers for the parish of Barming. The 18th-century rector Mark Noble was a prolific note-taker. Beneath a burial entry for Rebeccah Steed in 1765, he added in much smaller writing, “She

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