Genealogy and Parish Record News & Information

Viewing Parish Records in your own home
With the use of personal computers becoming more widespread, the best way to make the parish records easily accessible to the general public is to transfer those records from micro-fiche and film to CD-ROM.

A Short History of Parish Records
As we have seen, both Civil Registration and Census Returns run out when you get back to c.1840, and rarely provide information relevant before 1800. At this stage you need to turn to Parish Records.

New Registers added: 'Quaker' (Religious Society of Friends)
The pay-per-view site BMDRegisters.co.uk has added 'Quaker' (Religious Society of Friends) registers to the website.

Phillimore's Marriage Indexes on CD-ROM
Phillimore's Marriage Indexes can help you track your ancestors back to the 18th century.

Non-Conformist Records now Complete!
The non-conformist and non-parochial records held by The National Archives have now been digitised. The final series of records is now complete and available to search on www.BMDRegisters.co.uk, or as part of a subscription to www.TheGenealogist.co.uk.

15 reasons to join TheGenealogist.co.uk
In the cut-and-thrust world of genealogy websites, one stands out for its friendly ethos and impressively broad range of content: The Genealogist (www.thegenealogist. co.uk). It's easy to see why the site was voted Census and BMD site of the year...

Article of the Month: The Ultimate Sacrifice
We all owe a debt of gratitude to those who died fighting for our country, and November 11th is the time when we remember those who died in the Great War of 1914 to 1918, the 'War to end all wars'.

Weddings Abroad
Over 38,000 overseas marriage records have been added to the existing collection of overseas civil registration records available at BMDRegisters.co.uk