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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. | 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. | ||
A law passed in 1836 required many nonconformist groups to send their registers into the Public Record Office. The Family History Library has microfilm copies of those that were deposited. | 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). | ||
The following two works contain more information about nonconformist denominations: | The following two works contain more information about nonconformist denominations: | ||
*Steel, Donald J. ''Sources for Nonconformist Genealogy and Family History''. London, England: Phillimore, 1973. (FHL [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=386783&disp=Sources+for+Scottish+genealogy+and+famil%20%20&columns=*,0,0 book 942 V26ste, vol. 12].) | *Steel, Donald J. ''Sources for Nonconformist Genealogy and Family History''. London, England: Phillimore, 1973. (FHL [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=386783&disp=Sources+for+Scottish+genealogy+and+famil%20%20&columns=*,0,0 book 942 V26ste, vol. 12].) | ||
* | *''Sources for Roman Catholic and Jewish Genealogy and Family History''. London, England: Phillimore, 1974. (FHL [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=386622&disp=Sources+for+Roman+Catholic+and+Jewish+ge%20%20&columns=*,0,0 book 942 V26ste, vol. 3].) <br> | ||
=== Jewish Records === | |||
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. | |||
=== Online non-conformist church records === | |||
== Web Pages | 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/] 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. | ||
=== Related Web Pages === | |||
*http://www.genealogylinks.net/marriages/uk/england/index.html | *http://www.genealogylinks.net/marriages/uk/england/index.html | ||
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*http://www.origins.net/BOWelcome.aspx<br> | *http://www.origins.net/BOWelcome.aspx<br> | ||
*http://www.freereg.org.uk/<br> | *http://www.freereg.org.uk/<br> | ||
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