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Parish records?

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Lynne

Lynne Report 14 Jan 2005 16:03

Try this site: Http(:)//freepages(.)genealogy(.)rootsweb(.)com/(~)hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers(.)htm Follow prompts to get to the area you are looking for.Then it lists the parish churches and the dates they cover

Angela

Angela Report 14 Jan 2005 14:21

I have found some of the County search services very useful. If you put the name of the county you are interested in into Google followed by "Search Service" you should come up with the appropriate society. I have the same problem. My family were from all over the place. Some services are free as they are manned by volunteers. Other may charge a very small amount of money. One society that I use will do an incredible amount of work and then e-mail and say "Does £2.50 sound alright?"!!!! I always feel that it is a real bargain.

BrianW

BrianW Report 13 Jan 2005 16:52

Put the names/dates/locations on here and someone in the areas concerned may be able to do some digging whilst visting a record office.

Researching:
Sherwood (Kent); Jesson (London); Worboys (Herts)

Susannah

Susannah Report 13 Jan 2005 16:45

Thank you all for your help, gives me alot to go on until I can get to the relevant areas. Sue :)

maryjane-sue

maryjane-sue Report 13 Jan 2005 15:16

And dont forget google - quite often if you type in the village/town you are researching you get some useful sites come up.

Phoenix

Phoenix Report 13 Jan 2005 13:35

If you live in the London area, the Society of Genealogists library has a huge collection of parish records. Joining isn't cheap, but they have so much else besides. Some record offices have parish registers on fiche and are prepared to sell these. B

KathleenBell

KathleenBell Report 13 Jan 2005 13:32

If you have an LDS family history centre near you, you can go there and order parish records on film, for a small fee (something like £2/£3), and they keep the film for about 3 months so you have plenty of time to search through them. The volunteers who run the centres are all very helpful (at least they are at the one near me). Kath. x

Sandra

Sandra Report 13 Jan 2005 13:14

hi you can search online parish clerks, their are volunteers across the country that are transcribing, and putting it on the net, also s & N geneology supplies sell cds of parishes that have been done happy hunting sandra

Joy

Joy Report 13 Jan 2005 13:12

and you can subscribe (free) to the appropriate rootsweb message boards. Joy

Joy

Joy Report 13 Jan 2005 13:07

You can join a family history society for the area, and they would have parish registers. Joy

Susannah

Susannah Report 13 Jan 2005 13:02

I have now got back before 1837 with some of my relatives, as I live a long way from where they were born/married/died and as the different branches also lived at opposite ends of country is there anyway I can do further research without actually visiting the areas. I do intended going in person when work and finances permits. Thanks for any help you can give. Sue