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| = Nonconformist Church Records = | | = Nonconformist Church Records = |
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| A nonconformist church is any denomination not conforming to the Church of England, including Roman Catholics, Jews, and Quakers. For more information on the different nonconformist denominations, read [[England Nonconformist Church Records]] and [[Religious non-conformity in England|Religious non-conformity in England]] | | A nonconformist church is any denomination not conforming to the Church of England, including Roman Catholics, Jews, and Quakers. For more information on the different nonconformist denominations and their records, read [[England Nonconformist Church Records]] and [[Religious non-conformity in England|Religious non-conformity in England]. |
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| The registers of these religions sometimes contain more information than those of the Church of England, often including the person’s birth date, baptism date, father’s name and residence, and mother’s name (including maiden name). They rarely contain marriage records (except for Quakers and Jews).
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| Nonconformist registers contain some burial entries, though nonconformists were usually buried in parish churchyards until the chapel obtained its own burial grounds or until civil/municipal cemeteries opened.
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| It is not uncommon to find an ancestor affiliated with more than one religion during his or her lifetime. Search all religions and all chapels of a particular religion if an ancestor might be a nonconformist because some people changed religions and travelled long distances to attend their meetings. Ministers often travelled large circuits keeping the vital statistics of several places in the register they carried with them.
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| A law passed in 1836 required many nonconformist groups to send their registers into The National Archives, formerly the Public Record Office. The Family History Library has microfilm copies of those that were deposited. Some of these records have been extracted, and the names appear in the International Genealogical Index IGI).
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| The following two works contain more information about nonconformist denominations:
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| *Steel, Donald J. ''Sources for Nonconformist Genealogy and Family History''. London, England: Phillimore, 1973. (FHL {{FHL|386783|title-id|disp=book 942 V26ste, vol. 12}}.)
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| *''Sources for Roman Catholic and Jewish Genealogy and Family History''. London, England: Phillimore, 1974. (FHL {{FHL|386622|title-id|disp=book 942 V26ste, vol. 3}}.) <br>
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| === Jewish Records ===
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| A large database of lineage-linked Jewish ancestors is the Knowles Collection. Click [[The Knowles Collection: the Jews of the British Isles|here]] to find out about this collection.
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| === Online non-conformist church records ===
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| *The Official Non-Parochial BMDs Service is for records of birth, baptism, marriage, death and burial taken from non parish sources [http://www.bmdregisters.co.uk/ BMDRegister.co.uk] such as non-conformist records of Methodists, Wesleyans, Baptists, Independents, Protestant Dissenters, Congregationalist, Presbyterians, Unitarians, Quakers (Society of Friends), Dissenters and Russian Orthodox. Maternity Records plus various other BMD records are also included.
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| *[http://www.thegenalogist.co.uk/ The Genealogist] has recently placed millions of entries of names transcribed from nonconformist church registers. See their website for searching.
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| *[http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=allCollections&r=1 Record Search Pilot at FamilySearch.org] has millions of entries transcribed and indexed over the last 40 years, now available online.
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| === Related Web Pages === | | === Related Web Pages === |