Parish Records online?

[stewpot54]

Are Parish records available online.

Also when did the census taking start.I have managed to trace family back to 1816 but seem to have hit a brick wall.

Any advice would be very welcome.

[retep]

Are Parish records available online.

Also when did the census taking start.I have managed to trace family back to 1816 but seem to have hit a brick wall.

Any advice would be very welcome.

 

http://www.sheffieldindexers.com/

 

http://freereg.rootsweb.com/cgi/Search.pl

 

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=igi/search_IGI.asp&clear_form=true

[Gingerbarf]

There are some on this website http://www.sheffieldindexers.com/ or http://www.sheffieldrecordsonline.org.uk/

Thats if it's Sheffield you're researching?? not sure about any other area's best googling seeing if any local FHS has done a simular project!!

I think Census taking started in 1801 but it wasn't until 1841 that names and ages etc were included, think 1801-1841 was just number of occupants for population counts.

[stewpot54]

Thankyou for your help.

[ssbenson]

Have you tried the IGI, thats the mormon church site, try Family search or Hugh Wallis IGI, hope this helps.

Sue B

[smary]

The IGI (International Genealogical Index) is a good place to look for pre 1837. 1837 is when births marriages and deaths had to be registered. Before that it was Parish records. The IGI can be found http://www.familysearch.org - as ssbenson said this is the mormon site, it has excellent records. This link will take to directly to the IGI search facility. Don't put too much information in - keep it to name, date etc. if you start putting in fathers name etc it seems to limit the results.

 

http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=igi/search_IGI.asp&clear_form=true

[Tuppie]

http://www.familysearch.org

OR

https://beta.familysearch.org/ this will replace the original site in the future.

 

One particularly important information source that has been produced by the Family History Library is the International Genealogical Index (or IGI), now available on line at the above site.

This contains millions of entries, mainly of baptisms and marriages, many of them taken from parish registers as part of an organized program of careful transcription, others provided by individual and not always overly careful researchers. Although you will need to check the original souces of the information contained in the Index, you will often find that the Index can be a great help to your research. However, its coverage is far from complete, so the fact that the ancestor you are seeking does not appear in the IGI should not cause you to give up.

 

Tuppie