England Beginning Research Series Lesson 4: Understanding Church Records Welcome! This series of...

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England Beginning Research SeriesLesson 4: Understanding Church Records

Welcome! This series of lessons will help you learn how to conduct genealogical research on an ancestor from England.

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This lesson should take 20 minutes to complete.

Objectives

By the end of this lesson, you will be able to do the following:

Understand the value of parish registers.Explore www.familysearch.org.

Search the Catalog. Locate record collections. Find a local FamilySearch Center. Learn about handwriting.

Learn about other Church Records.Evaluate the records that are found.


Parish Registers

From 1538 to the present, the Church of England parish registers include:

• Baptism records• Marriage records• Burial records



Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions

Types of Records

Civil Registration Church Records

Birth *Baptism or Christening

Marriage Marriage

Death *Burial


* For family history research purposes, christenings and burials replace records of birth and death before civil registration in 1837, and these records are a supplement to births and deaths after 1837.

Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions

Jurisdiction Authority

Province Archbishop

Diocese Bishop

Archdeaconry Archdeacon

Rural Deanery Dean

Parish or Chapelry Minister


The Lucas Family

www.familysearch.org


Searching for Harriott Leeson


FamilySearch – Historical Record Collections


FamilySearch–Historical Record Collections


http://broadcast.lds.org/elearning/FHD/Community/en/Forms/ResearchLog.pdf

Parish Registers Online

Other free sites to search:

www.freereg.org.ukwww.onlineparishclerks.org.uk www.genuki.org.ukwww.google.com

Pay sites to search:

www.findmypast.co.uk www.ancestry.co.uk www.thegenealogist.co.uk www.origins.net


http://www.freereg.org.uk/

http://www.onlineparishclerks.org.uk/

http://www.genuki.org.uk/

http://www.google.com/

http://www.findmypast.co.uk/

http://www.ancestry.co.uk/

http://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/

http://www.origins.net/

www.freereg.org.uk


www.onlineparishclerks.org.uk


GENUKI www.genuki.org.uk


Search Engines


Google Search Result Yahoo Search Result

Pay sites–www.findmypast.co.uk


Pay sites – www.ancestry.co.uk


Pay sites – www.thegenealogist.co.uk


Pay sites–www.origins.net–British Origins


FamilySearch–The Catalog


FamilySearch–Exploring the Catalog


Parish Baptism Record


Parish Marriage Record


Parish Burial Record


FamilySearch–Locating a FamilySearch Center


Church of England Records

Parish Registers–local unit governing Church affairs; original

“Chapelries” (more records)

Bishop’s Transcripts, (1598), copies

Parish Chest records, business and activities


Other Church Records

Church Warden Accounts and Vestry Minutes

Poor Rates

Settlement Certificates and Removal Orders

Bastardy Bonds


Nonconformist Records

Shown here is William Tyndale (1492 – 1536) Tyndale was an English scholar who became a central figure in Protestant reformation.

Nonconformist Churches

Baptists Congregationalists

Methodists Protestants Dissenters

Independents Society of Friends (Quakers)

Roman Catholics Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons)

Presbyterians


Handwriting–Paleography

Many different types of handwritingOnline helps:

www.familysearch.org click Learn then Research Courses then English Paleography. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk click Paleography.


http://www.familysearch.org/

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

The Lucas Family


Pedigree Chart

James Lucas

Hyrum J. LucasAbt. 1863Newbold On Avon, Warwickshire, England


http://broadcast.lds.org/elearning/FHD/Community/en/Forms/pedigree.pdf

http://broadcast.lds.org/elearning/fhd/Community/FamilySearch/5Minute/index.html?bcpid=961771591001&bckey=AQ~~,AAAAsMO7iuE~,0a6boL_aMzTb7-jWuQzVf9R-YaZ8KNh2&bclid=954918779001&bctid=956167877001

Family Group Record – James Lucas Family


http://broadcast.lds.org/elearning/FHD/Community/en/Forms/family%20group%20record.pdf


Congratulations!

You have completed the Church Records lesson in the series.

This completes this four part England Research series.

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