Genealogy Reviews
Parish Record and Wills Reviews
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February 2008 Clandestine Marriages in the Chapel and Rules of the Fleet Prison 1680-1754 Mark Herber, solicitor; member of the Society of Genealogists and author of Ancestral Trails - the complete guide to British genealogy and family history, has transcribed a series of registers of clandestine marriages which took place in and around the Fleet Prison in London between 1680 and 1754. The original documents can be viewed at The National Archives. READ FULL REVIEW... January 2008 Business matters, poll books, parish registers, and not so ordinary people Kathy Chater gives the low-down on the latest CDs. READ FULL REVIEW... Huguenot refugees in Southampton This reproduction on CD-ROM of the Huguenot Society Register of Southampton: Births 1567-1779; Marriages 1567-1753; Burials 1567-1722 comprises a full transcription of the church registers of L'Eglise Wallonne de [the Walloon church of] Southampton (Volume 4). It was originally published in 1890, but retains the original French. READ FULL REVIEW... November 2007 If you know where an ancestor lived, parish records, local directories and census returns are good hunting places, and many are now available on CD. Another good source for family historians is wills, and again more have been put on disc recently. READ FULL REVIEW... October 2007 Grantham, Lincolnshire Parish Registers 1562-1632 This volume, originally published in hard copy by the Lincoln Record Society in 1916, contains a transcription of the registers of the Parish Church of St Wulfram in Grantham. READ FULL REVIEW... September 2007 Parish Records for Surrey Volume IX - Article September '07 Track your ancestors back to the 18th century and earlier using Phillimore's marriage indexes to the parish records. The parish records covered in volume IX are for the parishes of Stoke D'Abernon 1620-1812, and Haslemere 1772-1812. READ FULL REVIEW... August 2007 Dudley, Worcestershire Parish Registers 1656-1837 They cover nearly 200 years and contain over 3,000 entries of births, baptisms, marriages, deaths and burials of Quakers, Congregationalists (Independants), Baptists and Wesleyan Methodists. READ FULL REVIEW... Parish Records for Leicestershire, Volume IX - Article August '07 Track your ancestors back to the 18th century and earlier using Phillimore's marriage indexes to the parish records. The parish records covered in volume IX are for the parishes of Walton-on-the-Wolds, Quorndon, Woodhouse, Wanlip, Swithland and Humberstone. READ FULL REVIEW... July 2007 Parish Records for Buckinghamshire, Volume IX - Article July '07 Track your ancestors back to the 18th Century and earlier using Phillimore's marriage indexes to the parish records. The parish records covered in volume IX are for the parishes of Broughton, Lathbury, Moulsoe and Newport Pagnell. READ FULL ARTICLE... June 2007 Professional people, poll books and parish registers all appear in this month's CD round-up by Kathy Charter. READ FULL REVIEW... Parish Records for Derbyshire, Volume IX - Article Jun '07 Trace your ancestors back to the 18th Century and earlier using Phillimore's marriage indexes to the parish records. The parish records covered in Volume IX are for the parish of All Saints, Derby 1558-1837. READ FULL ARTICLE... April 2007 Ipswich Marriage Licenses 1613 - 1674 A digitally enhanced rendering of documents from the archives of the Archdeaconry of Suffolk, chronicling official marriage licences issued from Ipswich Probate Court in the 17th century. READ FULL REVIEW... March 2007 Nottinghamshire Parish Records - March 2007 Article Use Phillimore's marriage indexes to track your ancestors back to the 18th century and earlier, before the census and civil registration became available. READ FULL ARTICLE... November 2006 Bairnie and Tillydesk Parish Registers Published in 1907 and attributed to the Scottish Record Society, this is a rare register of baptisms in the parishes of Bairnie and Tillydesk from 1763 to 1801. This could be a great help for finding residences of ancestors. READ FULL REVIEW... October 2006 Shropshire Parish Records, Sets 1 and 2 Two seperate CDs, but sufficiently similar to be reviewed together. Each CD holds data from different parishes - both sets are PDF files, fully searchable, complete with bookmarks and interface. READ FULL REVIEW... Lancashire and Cheshire Wills and Inventories 1621 - 1650 Acts of Parliament culminating in 1653 ruled that probates and letters of administration would only be legal if carried out by the Keeper of the Prerogative Court at Canterbury Thus we have Lancashire and Cheshire data on this CD from records at both Cheshire and Canterbury. READ FULL REVIEW.. December 2005 This is a compilation of 12 individual Parish Register transcript CDs offering excellent value compared to the individual CD prices... READ FULL ARTICLE... August 2005 Phillimore's Marriages on CD-ROM These parish records of marriages- with, for some parishes, baptisms and burials- were transcribed by volunteers, edited by W P W Phillimore and Frederic Johnson and published by Phillimore and Co. in the latter part of the 19th and the early part of the 20th centuries... READ FULL REVIEW... February 2005 Indexes of Wills in the Yorkshire Register New from S&N are these Indexes of the first 42 Registers of Transcribed Wills proved in the Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of York... READ FULL REVIEW... January 2005 London & Shropshire Parish Records Briefly described here are just two CDs from more than 27 for the English counties... READ FULL REVIEW... December 2004 This CD contains a transcript of the Baptisms 1634-95 and the Marriages and Burials 1619-95 for the parish church of St Peter, Kirkgate, Leeds... MORE November 2004 Relatively few records survive from the medieval period; but as the introduction to Wills in the York Registry 1389-1652 (S&N £29.95) says, given the turmoil... READ FULL REVIEW... Parish Registers - Leeds, Yorkshire 1619-1695 Contains baptisms, marriages and burials... READ FULL REVIEW... October 2004 Wills in the York Registry 1389-1652 Released to coincide with the recent family history fair this may well help genealogists interested in early Yorkshire ancestors. The disc consists of eleven volumes of wills proved in the Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of York... READ FULL REVIEW... |