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The most widely known of [[England Church Records|church records]] are parish registers of baptisms, marriages and burials. For the Anglican church in England these commenced in 1538, though few original registers survive from this date. The contents of a few however were copied into later registers as a result of a Constitution of the Province of Canterbury (1598) which required parchment registers to be kept and previous baptisms, marriages and burial entries be copied into them, especially from the beginning of the reign of Queen Elizabeth 1 (1558). Not all parishes complied and gaps are inevitable prior to 1598. | The most widely known of [[England Church Records|church records]] are parish registers of baptisms, marriages and burials. For the Anglican church in England these commenced in 1538, though few original registers survive from this date. The contents of a few however were copied into later registers as a result of a Constitution of the Province of Canterbury (1598) which required parchment registers to be kept and previous baptisms, marriages and burial entries be copied into them, especially from the beginning of the reign of Queen Elizabeth 1 (1558). Not all parishes complied and gaps are inevitable prior to 1598. | ||
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Coverage of registers for an individual parish can be found in the ''National Index of Parish Registers'', a series of regional volumes published by the [[England Societies#The Society of Genealogists|Society of Genealogists]] and Phillimore Ltd. | Coverage of registers for an individual parish can be found in the ''National Index of Parish Registers'', a series of regional volumes published by the [[England Societies#The Society of Genealogists|Society of Genealogists]] and Phillimore Ltd. | ||