Media: BOOK - hardcover (with dustjacket), 284 pages
Author: C. Humphrey-Smith
Year: 1984
Other: maps, index
Publisher: Phillimore

Parish Registers are a vast, important but widely scattered archive. They are essential to the family historian, providing the only written record of the vast majority of our ancestors who left but three brief mentions - a baptism, a marriage and a burial.

This guide to parish registers, now in its third edition, and covering England, Scotland and Wales, is a vital, time-saving tool that has become universally known as 'the genealogist's bible'.

The Atlas includes the famous county 'parish' maps, which show pre-1832 parochial boundaries, colour coded probate jurisdictions, starting dates of surviving registers, and churches and chapels, where relevant.

Topographical maps face each 'parish' map, and show the contemporary road system and other local features, to help deduce the likely movement of people beyond the searcher's starting point.

The Index lists the parishes, with grid reference to the county maps. It indicates the present whereabouts of original registers and copies, and whether a parish is included in other indexes. It also gives registration districts and census information.

Thus, in this invaluable guide, the user may quickly find answers to such questions as:

• Have the registers been deposited?
• Where may they be found?
• What outside dates do they cover?
• Have they been copied on indexes, and by whom?

Contents:
Editor's Introduction
List of Publications

The Atlas
Bedfordshire
Berkshire
Buckinghamshire
Cambridgeshire
Cheshire
Cornwall
Cumberland
Derbyshire
Devon
Dorset
Durham
Essex
Gloucestershire
Hampshire
Herefordshire
Hertfordshire
Huntingdonshire
Kent
Lancashire
Leicestershire
Lincolnshire: Parts of Lindsey
Lincolnshire: Parts of Kesteven & Holland
London
Middlesex
Monmouthshire
Norfolk
Northamptonshire & Rutland
Northumberland
Nottinghamshire
Oxfordshire
Shropshire
Somersetshire
Suffolk
Surrey
Sussex
Warwickshire
Westmorland
Wiltshire
Worcestershire
Yorkshire (East Riding)
Yorkshire (North Riding)
Yorkshire (West Riding)
Central Wales
North Wales
South Wales

The Index