A Staudiiig Committee has been appointed by the Congress for the 

 purpose of giving advice and distributing to the various Societies in 

 Union such information and lists as may be of common value to all. 



Societies in Union are strongly urged to form their own Committees 

 to take steps to secure the printing of the many Transcripts that 

 already exist unpublished, and to promote further Transcription. 



By permission of G. W. Marshall, Esq., LL.D. (Rouge Croix, College of 

 Arms), the accompanying list of Printed Registers has been prepared 

 from the Calendar privately printed by him in 1891. A revised and 

 augmented edition of this Calendar is in progress, and will contain full 

 references to all known printed Registers, Transcripts and Collections, 

 whether complete or consisting of extracts. 



The Committee also issue a list of MS. Transcripts and propose to 

 prepare and issue further lists from time to time. They therefore ask 

 that information may be sent to them, or to the Secretaries of County 

 Societies, of any Transcripts in private hands. The inclusive dates of 

 Baptisms, Marriages and Burials should be given, and any complete 

 Transcript will be calendared, although extending over a short period 

 only, but Extracts will not be admissible. 



The Committee suggest that lists of existing Transcripts, with full 

 particulars of the location of the Transcript, should be kept by the 

 County Societies, and where possible, in order to avoid risk of loss, it 

 is very desirable that such Transcripts should be deposited, either 

 temporarily or permanently, in the Libraries of the Societies. 



It is believed that the publication of a series of Registers, supple- 

 mental and extra to their Transactions, would add to the attractiveness 

 and usefulness of the Societies without being a serious burden to their 

 funds. By combination and organization a considerable body of out- 

 side subscribers may probably be secured for such a series, and the 

 cost of distribution of circulars, etc., may be materially reduced by 

 such a plan as the issue, by the Central Committee, of an annual 

 circular containing lists of Registers in course of publication. Such a 

 circular might be .distributed by the local Societies and published in 

 their Transactions and elsewhere. 



The Standing Committee will be very glad to receive suggestions 

 from Local Committees and others. 



