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The England counties listed below are '''based on historic boundaries pre-1974'''. Genealogy records are kept on the county and parish level in England. These counties are used throughout the FamilySearch system to organize access to records and articles. Click on a county or parish name below to go to the relevant wiki article listing more information. | The England counties listed below are '''based on historic boundaries pre-1974'''. Genealogy records are kept on the county and parish level in England. These counties are used throughout the FamilySearch system to organize access to records and articles. Click on a county or parish name below to go to the relevant wiki article listing more information. | ||
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Guide to England ancestry, family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Information[edit | edit source]
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England is one of the four constituent countries of the United Kingdom (together with Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland). It has a history that goes back over a thousand years. In 1707, the Kingdom of England joined the Kingdom of Scotland in union to become the Kingdom of Great Britain. The official language is English.[1]
England Clickable Map[edit | edit source]
*The England counties listed are based on historic boundaries pre-1974. The records dating before 1974 are located within the information found in the historic counties. This practice better assists users who are researching their ancestors before the modern time period. See England County Boundaries for more information.
Counties and Parishes[edit | edit source]
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The England counties listed below are based on historic boundaries pre-1974. Genealogy records are kept on the county and parish level in England. These counties are used throughout the FamilySearch system to organize access to records and articles. Click on a county or parish name below to go to the relevant wiki article listing more information.
- Bedfordshire (parishes)
- Berkshire (parishes)
- Buckinghamshire (parishes)
- Cambridgeshire (parishes)
- Cheshire (parishes)
- Cornwall (parishes)
- Cumberland (parishes)
- Derbyshire (parishes)
- Devon (parishes)
- Dorset (parishes)
- Durham (parishes)
- Essex (parishes)
- Gloucestershire (parishes)
- Hampshire (parishes)
- Herefordshire (parishes)
- Hertfordshire (parishes)
- Huntingdonshire (parishes)
- Kent (parishes)
- Lancashire (parishes)
- Leicestershire (parishes)
- Lincolnshire (parishes)
- London (parishes)
- Middlesex (parishes)
- Norfolk (parishes)
- Northamptonshire (parishes)
- Northumberland (parishes)
- Nottinghamshire (parishes)
- Oxfordshire (parishes)
- Rutland (parishes)
- Shropshire (parishes)
- Somerset (parishes)
- Staffordshire (parishes)
- Suffolk (parishes)
- Surrey (parishes)
- Sussex (parishes)
- Warwickshire (parishes)
- Westmorland (parishes)
- Wiltshire (parishes)
- Worcestershire (parishes)
- Yorkshire (parishes)
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "England," in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England, accessed 23 March 2016.