Parish Records in the United Kingdom
Calendar HistoryParish Records (See also link to English/Welsh)
- FamilySearch – https://familysearch.org (Catalog search by place & select 'church records' or search for historical records or browse by place & then search)
Hugh Wallis Index – http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers.htm (an index for searching the IGI by batch numbers) - Ancestry – https://www.ancestry.co.uk (costs)
- FindMyPast – www.findmypast.co.uk (costs, especially good for RC records)
- MyHeritage – www.myheritage.com (costs)
- TheGenealogist – https://www.thegenealogist.com (costs, especially good for non-conformist registers)
- Cambridgeshire Family History Society – https://www.cfhs.org.uk/resaids.cfm
- (The) Churchwardens' Accounts of England & Wales – https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/myparish/projects/cwa
- Cornwall OPC – https://www.cornwall-opc-database.org/search-database/ (Online Parish Clerks)
- Devon OPC – https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/OPCproject (Online Parish Clerks)
- Dorset OPC – http://www.opcdorset.org/index.htm (Online Parish Clerks)
- Dusty Docs – http://www.dustydocs.com.au (links to free websites in The British Isles containing Parish Registers)
- Essex Archives Online – https://www.essexarchivesonline.co.uk/ParishRegisters.aspx (Essex Record Office)
- FamilyRelatives.com – http://www.familyrelatives.com/ (many parish registers, costs)
- FreeREG – https://www.freereg.org.uk (free baptisms, marriages & burials)
- Hampshire OPC – https://www.knightroots.co.uk (Online Parish Clerks)
- Kent OPC – https://www.kent-opc.org (Online Parish Clerks)
- Lancashire OPC – https://www.lan-opc.org.uk (Online Parish Clerks)
- Leicestershire Genealogical Resources – http://sites.rootsweb.com/~engleiopc/
- London burial grounds – http://www.burial.magic-nation.co.uk/bgpage1.htm (locations & descriptions - not monumental inscriptions)
- Middlesex Marriage Index 1563-1895 – http://www.angelfire.com/fl/Sumter/Middlesex.html
- Mid-Kent Marriage Index 1754-1911 – http://www.woodchurchancestry.org.uk/midkentmarriages/index.php
- Northamptonshire Family History – http://www.familyhistorynorthants.co.uk (some cost)
- Rushden Research – https://www.rushdenheritage.co.uk (parish records etc from the Rushden & District History Society Research Group of Northamptonshire)
- Somerset OPC – http://wsom-opc.org.uk (Online Parish Clerks)
- Sussex OPC – http://www.sussex-opc.org (Online Parish Clerks)
- UK County Record Offices (CRO) – https://www.genuki.org.uk (select country, county & see under Archives - CRO are usual holders of parish records)
- UKBMD Online Parish Clerks websites – https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/online_parish_clerk
- Warwickshire OPC – http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/opc/opc.html (Online Parish Clerks)
- Wiltshire OPC – https://wiltshire-opc.org.uk/genealogy/ (Online Parish Clerks)
The Poor
- 19th Century Poor Law Union & Workhouse Records – https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/poverty-poor-laws/
- Charles Booth'a London – https://booth.lse.ac.uk (Poverty maps & police notebooks)
- Household Living Arrangements and Old Age Pauperism in Late-Victorian England – https://www.mdpi.com/2313-5778/4/2/55/htm
- Poor Law Records – http://englishancestors.byu.edu/Pages/poor-law
- Poor Law Records (Somerset) – http://www1.somerset.gov.uk/archives/PoorLawRecs.htm
- Poor Law Records (West Sussex) – https://www.sussexrecordsociety.org/dbs/pl/
- The Workhouse – http://www.workhouses.org.uk
Poor Law Unions – http://www.workhouses.org.uk/unions/ - Workhouse Records (Poor Law Unions) – https://www.genguide.co.uk/source/workhouse-records-poor-law-unions/
Roman Catholic & Non-conformists' Records
- Baptist Archives (UK) – http://www.baptisthistory.org.uk
- Dr Williams' library – https://dwl.ac.uk (English Protestant Non-Conformists)
- Methodist Archives (UK) – http://www.methodistheritage.org.uk/archives-libraries-methodist.htm
- Quakers (Friends) Archives (UK) – https://newtrial.qfhs.co.uk
- Religion in Victorian Britain – https://victorianweb.org/victorian/religion/index.html
- Roman Catholic UK history – https://catholicfhs.online
- Salvation Army history – https://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/about-us/our-history
- Surman Index Online – https://surman.english.qmul.ac.uk/ (Congregational ministers)
Cemeteries and Monumental Inscriptions
- Cemetery Records Online – http://www.interment.net/
- Cemsearch UK – http://www.cemsearch.co.uk/ (Monumental Inscriptions & gravestones in Lancashire)
- Deceased Online – https://www.deceasedonline.com/servlet/GSDOSearch
- National Burial Index – http://www.findmypast.com (See 'Births, Marriages & Deaths', free to search, costs to see transcriptions)
International Genealogical Index (IGI)
- IGI & Ancestral File – https://familysearch.org/search/collection/igi
- Hugh Wallis Index – http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers.htm (an index for searching the IGI by batch numbers)
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) (LDS)
LDS have microfilmed many records (including parish records, censuses & much more)
- FamilySearch website – http://www.familysearch.org
- Family History Centers – https://www.familysearch.org/fhcenters/locations/
- FamilySearch Place Search – https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog
- Hugh Wallis Index – http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers.htm (an index for searching the IGI by batch numbers)
- Granite Mountains Records Vault – https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/granite-mountain-records-vault