Suffolk Church Records: Difference between revisions

There are two copies of the Parish Registers.&nbsp; The parish kept their own register and every year they sent a copy to the Bishop known as the Bishop Transcripts.&nbsp; Parish Chest Records are held by the Suffolk Record Office. &nbsp;It is unknown how complete there collection is.<br>

   

   

== Parish Registers  ==

The parish registers can be viewed at the Suffolk Record Office.&nbsp; The Suffolk Record Office also sells the registers for any pairsh in the county in microfiche form.&nbsp; There are numerous indexes and transcriptions that have been published by the Suffolk Family History Society.&nbsp; There are numerous indexes that have been created over the years that have been filmed the Family History Society.

   

A Bishop Transcript is a copy of the parish registers that was sent to the Bishop from the parish every year. From 1685 to the 1875 there are Suffolk Bishop Transcripts which have been microfilmed&nbsp;&nbsp; by the Genealogical Society of Utah. The Western Division of the County is know as the [https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/show?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fcatalog-search-api%3A8080%2Fwww-catalogapi-webservice%2Fitem%2F185705 Archdeaconry of Sudbury] and the Eastern Divsion is known as the [https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/show?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fcatalog-search-api%3A8080%2Fwww-catalogapi-webservice%2Fitem%2F346632 Archdeaconry of Suffolk], each having a considerable number of Deanry's. After 1813 the parishes are filmed in alphabetical order.&nbsp; Before 1813 they are filmed by Deanry. From 1813 to 1875 a considerable amount of the transcripts are on the IGI.