Who Do You Think You Are?

YORKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER

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Ancestry £ ancestry.co.uk

Ancestry has a partnershi­p with West Yorkshire Archive Service. Its collection­s include West Yorkshire baptisms (1512-1910), marriages (1512-1935) and burials (1512-1985).

Findmypast £ findmypast. co.uk

Findmypast’s collection draws on partnershi­ps with societies and archives. The Yorkshire Digitisati­on Consortium includes the Borthwick Institute of Archives, Doncaster Archives, East Riding of Yorkshire Council, and many more. It launched in 2014 and in May 2016 more than 5.4 million records were added, bringing the total to 10.5 million. These include 4.6 million baptisms in Anglican parishes across the three historic Yorkshire counties, as well as records from Catholic and nonconform­ist parishes.

FreeREG freereg.org.uk

Parish registers for East Riding (156,417), North Riding (467,203), West Riding (1,333,207).

Joiner Marriage Index joinermarr­iage index.co.uk

Holds over 2 million marriage records from 4,760 parishes in 35 counties in England and Wales. East Riding has 151,507 marriage records from 224 parishes (1535-1838).

Sheffield Indexers www.sheffieldi­ndexers.com

Has a growing list of registers from parish churches in the area. The right-hand menu leads to a list of completed databases. The originals are held at Sheffield City Archives.

 ??  ?? St Jude, Moorfield, was recently added to Sheffield Indexers
St Jude, Moorfield, was recently added to Sheffield Indexers

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