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13 February 2009

One million parish records added

Findmypast.co.uk, in partnership with the Federation of Family History Societies (FFHS), has added nearly a million new memorial inscriptions to its Parish Records Collection. These records are the fruits of decades of transcription work by family historians nationwide.

Volunteers from different societies have visited graveyards and cemeteries in England and Wales, pulling back weeds, uncovering buried headstones and patiently deciphering weathered inscriptions.

In some cases the transcription is the only record that is left, as the headstone has completely weathered away or destroyed.

The newly added records cover the following counties:

Dorset
Essex
Glamorgan
Lincolnshire
Cheshire
Northumberland
Somerset
Warwickshire
Wiltshire

The records contain inscriptions from the 1600s to the twentieth century and will appear as part of the results when you search for a burial within the Parish Records Collection.

Some contain basic information such as parish and date of death, whereas others may contain much more information, depending on what was written on the headstone, and which of the information has survived the ravages of time.

Pricing for inscriptions is either six, eight or 12 credits, depending on the amount of detail they contain.

New parish records added for Lambeth and Cornwall

The addition of the memorial inscriptions helps make the findmypast.co.uk Parish Records Collection one of the largest online repositories of its kind. And they are not all we’ve added this month.

 We’ve also added over 31, 000 burial records for the parish of St Mary, Lambeth, the former parish church of Lambeth (then in the county of Surrey). These cover the period 1777-1819. And in December we added over 1.8 million baptism, marriage and burial records for Cornwall, bringing the total number of parish records on site to over 23 million.

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