 Parish Registers
Searching the Parish Registers
Searching parish registers can be very time consuming, especially
if you don't know the parish and have to look through an entire
county.
Searching the records online is straightforward and can save you
the journey to the relevant archive and going through the records
manually on hundreds of reels of microfilm. To find an ancestor
online you can simply type in the name of the person you are looking
for, and with the click of a button you can have your results almost
instantly.
The website that has the most Parish Registers available for people
to search is TheGenealogist,
and they are continually adding more records.
Searching for an Ancestor in the
Parish Registers
Use the Free Search button to use their New Master Index,
you can look across all their databases or select a particular type
of records such as Parish Registers.
If you are a subscriber you can also use their Master Keyword Search
or virtual books interface. To begin my search, I logged into TheGenealogist.
I then chose to search "Derby Marriage Registers" for
an ancestor. Once I had chosen to search these marriage registers,
I was presented with a search form - I simply had to type in my
search terms (the name of my ancestor), and choose the Parish where
they married. (If you are not sure of the Parish, there is the option
to search all of them.)
I typed "Thomas Jones" into the search box, and chose "Tickenhall 1628 - 1812" as the Parish. I got two results for my search - I found my ancestor in the second result, married to Mary Baxter in 1748.
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