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The birth records are indexed in the ''British Isles Vital Records Index'', which is available at the Family History Library and at [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/Library/FHC/frameset_fhc.asp family history centers]. | The birth records are indexed in the ''British Isles Vital Records Index'', which is available at the Family History Library and at [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/Library/FHC/frameset_fhc.asp family history centers]. | ||
==== Ministers ==== | ==== Ministers ==== | ||
Charles Surman compiled a biographical card index of Congregational ministers which was given to Dr Williams' Library in 1960. The [http://surman.english.qmul.ac.uk/ Surman Index Online] makes the contents available electronically via the internet for the first time. The index includes the names of about 32,000 ministers, and, where known, their dates, details of their education, ministries or other employment, together with the sources used. It covers the period from the mid-seventeenth century to 1972, and though it focuses on England and Wales, it includes Congregational ministers serving abroad provided they trained or served as ministers in Britain. Although intended as an index of Congregational ministers, it also gives details of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Presbyterians | Charles Surman compiled a biographical card index of Congregational ministers which was given to Dr Williams' Library in 1960. The [http://surman.english.qmul.ac.uk/ Surman Index Online] makes the contents available electronically via the internet for the first time. The index includes the names of about 32,000 ministers, and, where known, their dates, details of their education, ministries or other employment, together with the sources used. It covers the period from the mid-seventeenth century to 1972, and though it focuses on England and Wales, it includes Congregational ministers serving abroad provided they trained or served as ministers in Britain. Although intended as an index of Congregational ministers, it also gives details of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Presbyterians. | ||
==== For Further Reading ==== | ==== For Further Reading ==== | ||