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Most of the City of London's parishes, Inns of court, and liberty precincts are held at the [[Guildhall Library]]. {{RecordSearch|1473014|England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975}} at [ | Most of the City of London's parishes, Inns of court, and liberty precincts are held at the [[Guildhall Library]]. *'''1538-1975''' {{RecordSearch|1473014|England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975}} at FamilySearch - [[England Births and Christenings - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]; index & images has indexed more than 90% of the christenings and marriages. [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1624 Ancestry.com] has digitized London's parish registers with the exception of All Hallows Barking. Transcripts of many of the City of London parishes have been published and are now out of copyright (published before 1923). Consequently, many parish register transcripts have been digitised and are available for free at [http://books.google.com Google Books] and [http://www.archive.org Internet Archive]. To determine if your ancestor's parish has been digitised or indexed, refer to individual parish pages. | ||
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[[Image:{{LondonGreatFire}}]]The Great Fire of London (1666) destroyed many London churches and their records. Registers from only 30 parishes pre-date 1620.<ref>Banks, Charles Edward. 'London Subsidies 1596 to 1641 and Rent Rolls 1638' {{FHL|187050|item|disp=FHL Film 1550095 item 20}}.</ref><br> | [[Image:{{LondonGreatFire}}]]The Great Fire of London (1666) destroyed many London churches and their records. Registers from only 30 parishes pre-date 1620.<ref>Banks, Charles Edward. 'London Subsidies 1596 to 1641 and Rent Rolls 1638' {{FHL|187050|item|disp=FHL Film 1550095 item 20}}.</ref><br> | ||
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The [https://www.familysearch.org/family-history-library/welcome-to-the-family-history-library Family History Library] in Salt Lake City has just over 90 percent of the City of London's original parish registers on microfilm. These can circulated to any one of its 4500 family history centers worldwide. | The [https://www.familysearch.org/family-history-library/welcome-to-the-family-history-library Family History Library] in Salt Lake City has just over 90 percent of the City of London's original parish registers on microfilm. These can circulated to any one of its 4500 family history centers worldwide. | ||
Christening and marriage data has just about been completely transcribed and indexed and made available for most of the above 90 percent of the City of London's parish register holdings at the FHL and is available online in {{RecordSearch|1473014|England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975}} and {{RecordSearch|1473015|England Marriages, 1538-1973}} | Christening and marriage data has just about been completely transcribed and indexed and made available for most of the above 90 percent of the City of London's parish register holdings at the FHL and is available online in | ||
*'''1538-1975''' {{RecordSearch|1473014|England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975}} at FamilySearch - [[England Births and Christenings - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]; index & images and *'''1538-1973''' {{RecordSearch|1473015|England Marriages, 1538-1973}} at FamilySearch - [[England Marriages - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]; index & images The following parishes are not currently included: | |||
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