Genealogy Chat

I have now got to the point in my search for relatives that I need access to Parish records to progress with many of my branches. In the process of doing this, I have Kept a list of useful web sites where free information can be found. I hope this will be of use to other people.

Here is my quite limited list - hopefully people with much more experience then me will add to it !!

www.lan-opc.org.uk/
Parish records for Lancashire

www.uk-genealogy.org.uk/Registers/index.html
Cornwall, Derbyshire, Devon, Herfordshire, Shropshire

www.search.ancestry.co.uk - this I found particularly useful re
parish records for Swillington, Leeds and Clayton/Frickley (Doncaster)

freereg.rootsweb.com/search/index.htm
particularly good for Wolverhampton

www.wirksworth.org.uk/
Wirksworth Derbyshire

www.suffolk-surnames-list.co.uk/

Well, there is a thread on here with a lot of links. There is also a WIKI on family tree forum with links to all online resources.

You could look at cyndis list aswell

www.wolverhamptonarchives.dial.pipex.com/par-registers.htm

Baptisms/marriages/burials for 1537-1837 for several parishes

sussexweald - covers parts of Sussex and Kent.

Cityark - covers the Medway towns and Gravesend in Kent.

I am really pleased that this thread has suddenly taken off. When I decided to start the thread I thought it would be potentially usful to other members but it wasnt taken up. I just assumed that it had all been done before..... I am sure that there are other sites out there which many people don't know exist and could help find that illusive ancestor.

If you come across any sites please add.

Sandra

www.forest-of-dean.net

Tees Valley Indexes=www.middlesborough-indexes.co.uk

Hi, there's Dorset OPC also.

sherbert rose is there one for portsmouth uk

thanks joyce

sherbert rose is there one for portsmouth uk

thanks joyce

To find any OPC's, just go to ukbmd website, and click on OPC in the list to the left of the home page

http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/

Googling Parish Records Portsmouth brings up a number of results including

http://www.knightroots.co.uk/transcriptions/Parishes_P/Portsea_Portsmouth_Southsea/Portsea_Portsmouth_Southsea.htm

Some of the links are 'broken' suggesting that the page hasn't been maintained recently.

Sherbert Rose

I tried your Suffolk Surname list but nothing came up. Perhaps it's an old link.

Googled Suffolk Surnames and http://www.ssldatabase.plus.com/suff_br.html came up. Is this the same site?

Thanks for starting this useful thread.

Thank you detective this portsmouth address has a lot of information I can look into



joyce :-)

familysearch, for transcriptions and this section of it for Bishop's Transcripts of Durham, Northumberland and some other areas. No transcriptions - you have to age through the images but the older ones seem to have lots of info including MMN in baptisms, and name of mother and her father in children's burials. Also earlier baptisms show 1st, 2nd, etc child/son/daughter.

https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1309819