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=== Indexes to marriages.  ===
[[Image:All Saints Church Gresham, Norfolk.jpg|thumb|right|224x173px]]Boyd, Percival. ''Boyd’s Marriage Index''. Bound typescript. N.p., n.d. This work is an index to marriages in 4,375 parishes throughout England. It is available on microfilm, on microfiche, and in paper form. Look in the Author/Title Search of the Family History Library Catalogue for library call numbers.
You can find an explanation of this series in:
Wells, Claire T. Wells, comp. ''A Key to the Parishes Included in Boyd’s Marriage Index''. Second Edition. Salt Lake City, Utah: Family History Library, 1988. (FHL book [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=453735&disp=A+key+to+the+parishes+included+in+Boyd%2%20%20&columns=*,0,0 942 K22b 1988]; fiche [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=453735&disp=A+key+to+the+parishes+included+in+Boyd2++ 6035667].)
A list of parishes is also given in:
''A List of Parishes in Boyd’s Marriage Index''. London, England: Society of Genealogists, 1994. (FHL book [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=1026517&disp=A+list+of+the+parishes+in+Boyd%27s+marri%20%20&columns=*,0,0 942 K22l 1994].)
Some county record offices and other repositories have indexes to church records, some of which are on film at the Family History Library. Read the [[England Archives and Libraries|Archives and Libraries]] article for additional information, including addresses.
Privately held marriage indexes for most counties are available by correspondence at either of the following two sources. Many indexes are listed with the addresses of where to write in:
Humphery-Smith, Cecil R., ''The Phillimore Atlas and Index of Parish Registers''. Second Edition. Chichester, Sussex: Phillimore & Company, 1995. (FHL book [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=752598&disp=The+Phillimore+atlas+and+index+of+parish%20%20&columns=*,0,0 942 E7pa 1995].)
Gibson, Jeremy, and Elizabeth Hampson, Editors. ''Marriage and Census Indexes for Family Historians''. Seventh Edition. Birmingham, England: Federation of Family History Societies Publications, Limited, 1998. (FHL book [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=733642&disp=Marriage+and+census+indexes+for+family+h%20%20&columns=*,0,0 942 D27gjh].)
Some marriage indexes are on film at the Family History Library. To find them, use the Place Search of the Family History Library Catalogue under:
ENGLAND, [COUNTY NAME] - CHURCH RECORDS - INDEXES <br>
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