West Middlesex Family History Society

Links for Parochial and Non-conformist Sources

Parish records

• Family Search: Contains a lot of information from church registers prior to civil registration. The library catalogue can also be used to identify microfilms of registers which may then be ordered for viewing at the LDS Family History Centres.
• FreeREG: The FreeREG Project's objective is to provide free Internet searches of baptism, marriage, and burial records, which have been transcribed from parish and non-conformist church registers in the UK
• National Burial Index: Now hosted by FindMyPast, the Federation of Family History Societies project includes many records of burials from throughout England and Wales.
• Pallot's Marriage Index 1780-1837: Hosted by Ancestry, Contains more than 1.5 million marriage entries, mainly from London and Middlesex including all but two of the 103 parishes in the City.
• London Burials Index: Now part of Find My Past
• General Register Office for Scotland: Provides pay-per-view access to records of births, baptisms, banns and marriages for Scotland, prior to 1855.
• Society of Genealogists: The Society's library in London holds the largest collection of parish register copies in the country as well as a wide range of other genealogical source material. Some of this data is now online (eg Origins-UK) available to SoG members.
• Parish Register Transcription Society.
• Ancestors Reunited: A commercial gravestone/church photography service covering the entire UK.
• The major commercial websites also provide access to increasing numbers of records from parish registers.

Churches and Clergy

• The Clergy Database: Searchable database of clergy of the Church of England, providing references to their appointments, etc.
• Find A Church: Provides the location and contact details for over 40,000 churches in the UK. See also the Parish Information page on this site for links to West Middlesex churches.

Non-conformity

• BMDRegisters.Com: Index to births, marriages and deaths recorded in non-parochial registers (including Methodists, Wesleyans, Baptists, Independents, Protestant Dissenters, Congregationalist, Presbyterians, and Unitarians).
• Dr Williams's Centre for Dissenting Studies: The principal research library for English Protestant nonconformity.
• Methodist Archives and Research Centre: Part of the John Rylands University Library at the University of Manchester, with extensive collections relating the Methodism in Britain.
• Quaker Family History Society: A society for family historians researching British Quaker ancestry.
• Quakers in Britain: Includes a link to the Library of the Religious Society of Friends in Britain, with details of its collections and an on-line catalogue.
• Baptist Historical Society.
• Catholic Family History Society.
• Catholic National Library: An extensive library, including mission registers which list baptisms, confirmations, marriages and deaths dating back as early as 1694.
• Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain.
• JewishGen: The Home of Jewish Genealogy.
• The Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland