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Guide to England ancestry, family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

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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.

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Genealogy records are kept at the Parish level in England. The map below shows county boundaries as of 1851. Click on a county below to go to the county Wiki article listing more information.

Counties and Parishes

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)