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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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*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

• 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)