West Middlesex Family History Society

Links for Parochial and Non-conformist Sources

Parish records

• Family Search Contains a lot of information from church registers prior to civil registration. The library catalogue can also be used to identify microfilms of registers which may then be ordered for viewing at the LDS Family History Centres.
• FreeREG The FreeREG Project's objective is to provide free Internet searches of baptism, marriage, and burial records, which have been transcribed from parish and non-conformist church registers in the UK
• FamilyHistoryOnline Contains many county-based indexes to local parish records, including our own West Middlesex Marriage Index.
• National Burial Index Now hosted by FindMyPast, the Federation of Family History Societies project includes many records of burials from throughout England and Wales.
• Boyd's Marriage Index 1538-1840 Hosted by TheOriginsNetwork, this index includes over seven million marriage records taken from parish registers, including over one million for the London/Middlesex area.
• Pallot's Marriage Index 1780-1837 Hosted by Ancestry, Contains more than 1.5 million marriage entries, mainly from London and Middlesex including all but two of the 103 parishes in the City.
• London Burials Index 1538-1872 Also hosted by TheOriginsNetwork, this index includes about 275,000 burial records taken from London parish registers.
• General Register Office for Scotland Provides pay-per-view access to records of births, baptisms, banns and marriages for Scotland, prior to 1855.
• Society of Genealogists The Society's library in London holds the largest collection of parish register copies in the country as well as a wide range of other genealogical source material.
• Parish Register Transcription Society
• Ancestors Reunited A commercial gravestone/church photography service covering the entire UK.
• The major commercial websites also provide access to increasing numbers of records from parish registers.

Churches and Clergy

• The Clergy Database Searchable database of clergy of the Church of England, providing references to their appointments, etc.
• Find A Church Provides the location and contact details for over 40,000 churches in the UK. See also the Parish Information page on this site for links to West Middlesex churches.

Non-conformity

• BMDRegisters.Com Index to births, marriages and deaths recorded in non-parochial registers (including Methodists, Wesleyans, Baptists, Independents, Protestant Dissenters, Congregationalist, Presbyterians, and Unitarians).
• Dr Williams's Centre for Dissenting Studies The principal research library for English Protestant nonconformity.
• Methodist Archives and Research Centre Part of the John Rylands University Library at the University of Manchester, with extensive collections relating the Methodism in Britain.
• Quaker Family History Society A society for family historians researching British Quaker ancestry.
• Quakers in Britain Includes a link to the Library of the Religious Society of Friends in Britain, with details of its collections and an on-line catalogue.
• Baptist Historical Society
• Catholic Family History Society
• Catholic National Library An extensive library, including mission registers which list baptisms, confirmations, marriages and deaths dating back as early as 1694.
• Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain
• JewishGen: The Home of Jewish Genealogy
• The Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland