Parish Register Digitization Project

                                                                                                                                                                 

 

The lives of local people and your own family since the 16th century

 

Every page of these registers has been digitally photographed to a high resolution, 65,000 pages in total, and each name on every image is being matched to register transcripts. To date over 275,000 names can be searched and matched so you can complete your research online.

 

Researching the data and images provides many new opportunities including finding out about your own family; learning more about each parish; population analysis; migration; and seeing original pages starting in 1538.

 

Above - Scanning Officer Tristan Goodfellow

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Top and Above - Register of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Parson Drove circa.1657

 

 

Above - Clenchwarton parish baptism of 1854

 

Above - Screenshot of a search

 

You can search and find the images through either the Museum or the Society through their 'Ancestor Finder' https://www.cfhs.org.uk/toklogin.cfm

 

Would you like to get involved?

 

 

If you are interested in contributing to this project, the volunteer work can be fitted around other commitments, please contact the Society Projects Officer, Terry Garner, projects@cfhs.org.uk. 

 

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