1. U3A Family History Group Developing your Family History Research • Part 2. Parish Records & the IGI

2. Developing your Family History Research • Establishing the Basics of Family History Research. Forming a fundamental approach:- • Birth, Marriage & Death Certificates – Sept 08 • Census Data – Sept 08 • Parish Data • International Genealogical Index (IGI) – Nov 08 • Church Records • Memorial Stones (Graves) • Land Tax Assessments • Electoral Registers & Poll Books • Wills • Accessing Research from Others – Genes & Ancestry • Trade Directories • National / Local Newspapers • Photographs

3. Parish Data • To view Parish Records before Registration:- • Local County Records Office (CRO); personal search of a Church’s Parish records on Microfiche • Local County Records Office (CRO); personal search of the Bishops Transcripts (copies of the Parish Records) • View transcripts of Parish Records on-line (e.g. Ashbrittle in Somerset) • The Mormons International Genealogy Index contains about 70 million records of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials • Other index are available Pallots marriage records (covering London Parishes from 1780) and Boyds (incomplete coverage of many Counties from 1538)

4. Sometimes you can be lucky and find the Parish data on-line

5. Parish Data – International Genealogical Index • Mormon’s collection of Parish Records • Best online source of Parish Records – not complete and not necessarily accurate! But it is free • Very poor search engine – cannot search by Parish (unless you know the Batch Number) • Even when you find an event it may not add to your knowledge • Online at www.familysearch.org

6. Start search with the most accurate data you have

8. Obtain the Batch No from one entry

9. Search using Batch No and Surname

10. Parish Data – International Genealogical Index • Mormon’s collection of Parish Records • Other search techniques are to:- - Enter the Father & Mother’s details together with a wide range of dates in a particular County; this will give all the children - store all the findings in Excel spreadsheet and process the data to focus on the names or parish or years you want.

13. Parish Data – International Genealogical Index • Mormon’s collection of Parish Records • Too often your search can result in hundreds of hits with no way to narrow the search. • If you try and introduce a limited range of years, for instance, it throws out the message:- “If you enter a last name without a first name, you must either not enter parent or spouse names, a state, or a year, or you must enter a batch number or a film number.” • So a search techniques I use is to:- • Copy all the IGI data onto an Excel spreadsheet • Reformat it so that I can search by Parish or Year

14. IGI Data from broad search

15. IGI Data copied into Excel spreadsheet

16. IGI Data Processed by Macro and Sorted

17. Exact phrase: “william nairne clark” • Dates: last day / week / month / year • Include / exclude: blair +atholl –tony • Alternatives: old OR chipping sodbury • Synonyms: ~ship “alice maud” • Separation: rev * tosswill

18. Searching with Google

19. Searching with Google