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''After completing research in the ancient parish registers, be certain to ask yourself if you have also searched in the church registers of each chapelry attached to that parish (as listed in the "Comprehensive Lists" of parishes and chapels). To not follow this strategy in your research will result in less-than thorough searching, and failure to solve your research problems or objectives. These lists will greatly aid you as you attempt to progress your research into surrounding, contiguous parishes and their respective attached chapels, and so on. Aside from the sheer magnitude of its population, incomplete lists of chapels and chapelries ''lying within an ancient parish boundary is one of the major reasons many researchers have decades-old 'brickwall' research problems in tracing ancestral lineages in Lancashire!  
''After completing research in the ancient parish registers, be certain to ask yourself if you have also searched in the church registers of each chapelry attached to that parish (as listed in the "Comprehensive Lists" of parishes and chapels). To not follow this strategy in your research will result in less-than thorough searching, and failure to solve your research problems or objectives. These lists will greatly aid you as you attempt to progress your research into surrounding, contiguous parishes and their respective attached chapels, and so on. Aside from the sheer magnitude of its population, incomplete lists of chapels and chapelries ''lying within an ancient parish boundary is one of the major reasons many researchers have decades-old 'brickwall' research problems in tracing ancestral lineages in Lancashire!  


While the list (below) indicates most of Lancashire's more prominent churches--including its 75 ancient parishes (**), you will find more thorough, "Comprehensive Lists" found in each parish page with the most complete and thorough list of all chapelries attached to each's ancient parish (click those with a "'''**'''")''':'''  
The list (below) indicates most of Lancashire's more prominent churches. However, note that on about all Lancashire's 75 parishes (**) pages, you will find a link to the most thorough, "Comprehensive Lists" of all chapelries attached to each's ancient parish (click those with "'''**'''")''':'''  


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