Articles liés à Phillimore Atlas and Index of Parish Registers

Phillimore Atlas and Index of Parish Registers - Couverture rigide

Humphery-Smith, Cecil R.

 
9781860772399: Phillimore Atlas and Index of Parish Registers

Synopsis

Parish registers are an extremely important but widely scattered archive. They are essential to the family historian and provide the only written record of numerous ancestors. This guide to parish registers covers England, Scotland and Wales and is a vital time-saving tool that will quickly become any genealogist's bible. The atlas includes county parish maps which show pre-1882 parochial boundaries, color-coded probate jurisdictions, starting dates of surviving registers, as well as churches and chapels. Topographical maps face each parish map and show the contemporary road system and other local features. A helpful index lists all parishes with grid references to the county maps, and provides registration districts and census information. It also indicates the present whereabouts of original registers and copies, and whether a parish is included in other indexes.

Les informations fournies dans la section « Synopsis » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Présentation de l'éditeur

The third edition of this index features the addition of a map of the whole UK that shows the county boundaries before 1830 and a shift to reliance on census indexes rather than marriage indexes, which are now summarized in a paragraph. The index, which will be a resource for genealogists, is organi

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.