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




Society news

Notice Board

The Notice Board was last updated on 25th October 2023 (re Claudette Durham).

Next Meeting

Our next meeting is on Thursday 21st December 2023. This will be a hybrid Zoom meeting with members at St. John's Centre, and others attending by Zoom. Members will give short talks on how they successfully broke down a "brick wall".

Next Fair

Our next family history fair is East Surrey FHS Virtual Family History Fair on Saturday 27th January 2024.


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Recent updates

19-November-2023

New image (and tip) of the month.

4-November-2023

Committee minutes for September 2023 added to Members Area.

8-October-2023

Two short videos are added to Our Own You Tubes page.

20-October-2023

New image (and tip) of the month.

22-September-2023

New image (and tip) of the month.

9-September-2023

A new page titled Recordings of Talks is added to the Members section.


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