Genealogy and Parish Record News & Information

Who was W.P. Phillimore?
Phillimore has played a huge part in the transcription and printing of marriage register, and by the time he died he had covered over 1200 parishes.

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.

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.

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

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

Foreign Marriage Returns now available
A new resource, the Miscellaneous Foreign Marriage Returns 1826-1921, has now been added to BMDRegisters.co.uk, and to all-inclusive subscriptions to TheGenealogist.co.uk.