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Sally

Sally Report 16 Aug 2014 17:51

What extra information will I find by buying parish records?

ArgyllGran

ArgyllGran Report 16 Aug 2014 18:05


Parish records are invaluable for BMD's before compulsory registration started.

Otherwise, it depends what the person writing the record put in - could vary a lot from one place to another.

Researching:
Old genealogists never die.....they just lose their census.

Chrissie2394

Chrissie2394 Report 16 Aug 2014 19:21

Some baptisms have the childs' date of birth and also the home address.

Chris

Researching:
Photo is of my nan celebrating her 102nd birthday with her gt gt granddaughter.

AnnCardiff

AnnCardiff Report 16 Aug 2014 19:50

lots of info in the parish registers - I have the ones for my local parish - they are invaluable - I bought them from the local Family History Society - not very expensive

Researching:
Breakspears of Berkshire and Cardiff, Williams and Harman of Whitchurch, Melingriffith &Tongwynlais,Glamorgan WE HAVE NO CONNECTION Do not share your tree with me

BeverleyW

BeverleyW Report 16 Aug 2014 20:38

It depends what years you are talking about.

Researching:
Weedon - Australia, Hertfordshire; Paterson - Scotland; Elmer - Huntingdon; Ball, Lloyd, Warren - Birmingham; Branson - Bucks;

Andysmum

Andysmum Report 16 Aug 2014 22:15

As Ann says, they are definitely worth having, particularly if you have lots of ancestors from the same place.

I have the CD covering Hope in Derbyshire and have found lots of relatives on it.

The records cover about 200 years and the amount of extra information varies a lot depending on who was writing them up!

Cynthia

Cynthia Report 17 Aug 2014 17:00

Hello Sally and welcome to the Community boards.



I'll let Sally know how to find her replies.... :-)

Researching:
ADVICE: Click on 'My Threads' over on the left to find your replies. Please respond to your replies by typing in the Add Reply box at the bottom of the page. Enjoy!

jax

jax Report 17 Aug 2014 18:28

If you mean the extra charge to use the parish records on this site? It maybe worth looking at a free site first

https://familysearch.org/

http://www.freereg.org.uk/

or google the area you are interested in and you may find OPC's for that area

Researching:
Nothing much

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 17 Aug 2014 21:31

as Jax says, some counties have very good OnLine Parish Clerk records (OPC)


for example,

Lancashire has a very good site .............. Lancashire OnLine Parish Clerks project (OPC)


http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Search/indexp.html




or go to this site to see if the area you are interested in is part of the project .....

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




The sites I've mentioned are free .................. they depend on volunteers to transcribe the Parish registers.

Researching:
My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

Sally

Sally Report 23 Aug 2014 18:03

Many thanks to everybody for your comments and help