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 === Suffolk Bishop's Transcripts  ===
-Copies of the past year's baptismal, marriage and burial entries in the parish registers were supposed to be submitted annually to the local archdeacon or (every seventh year and sometimes more frequently) to the Bishop of Norwich, during his visitations. They are commonly known as Bishop's Transcripts (BTs) or (more accurately in most cases for this county) register bills. The [http://www.suffolk.gov.uk/sro Suffolk Record Office ](SRO) has all that have survived. Those from eastern Suffolk pre-dating the existing parish registers have been printed and collated for easier consultation at the Ipswich branch of the SRO. Others have to be viewed on film, year by year, and the arrangement is more complex (see below) but the time spent searching for them is not wasted when the BTs contain additional details not given in the parish registers. FamilySearch includes many entries from Suffolk BTs. Unfortunately, the parish is not always specified, or it appears to be Sudbury when in fact that is the name of the archdeaconry. Clicking on the batch number can reveal whether a disproportionately high number of people were baptized in any one year, but this does not help to locate the parish more precisely.<br>
+Copies of the past year's baptismal, marriage and burial entries in the parish registers were supposed to be submitted annually to the local archdeacon or (every seventh year and sometimes more frequently) to the Bishop of Norwich, during his visitations. They are commonly known as Bishop's Transcripts (BTs) or (more accurately in most cases for this county) register bills. Bishop Transcripts may pre-date the parish registers for some parishes.<br>
+The [http://www.suffolk.gov.uk/sro Suffolk Record Office ] (SRO) has all the BTs that have survived; however, if you live some distance from Ipswich you can consult the microfilmed collection of the Genealogical Society of Utah.  Since very few of the parish registers are available outside of Suffolk, your only option may be to rely on parish register transcripts and Bishop Transcripts that have been filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah. (of course you have the option of buying the parish register from the Suffolk Record Office) It is advisable to check both the parish registers and the Bishop Transcripts since they are copies of each other.  The time spent searching both the BTs and the parish registers is not wasted since it is possible that they may differ and additional details may be found about your ancestor.  Perhaps only 10% of the time will they differ.<br>
+FamilySearch has  indexed post 1813 entries from the Suffolk BTs.  Search these entries through the Hugh Wallis website or [https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/igi  FamilySearch].  Most of the people from Suffolk  found on FamilySearch come from the Bishop Transcripts.<br>
+Consult the sections below - Archdeaconry of Suffolk for Eastern Suffolk or Archdeaconry of Sudbury for Western Suffolk for additional details.
 === Extracted Records on FamilySearch  ===