East Midlands

Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire and Rutland

ANCESTRY £ w ancestry.co.uk

The website has millions of parish records from Derbyshire and Northamptonshire, including 4,138,400 records for Northamptonshire dating from before 1813.

FAMILYSEARCH w familysearch.org

The site has added millions of Lincolnshire transcriptions. It also has records for Derbyshire, Rutland and Leicestershire.

FINDMYPAST £ w findmypast.co.uk

Findmypast has a strong collection of digitised parish registers from the Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland. It also has Lincolnshire parish registers to browse, covering births and deaths to 1911 and pre-1837 marriages, as well as indexed marriages and licence bonds and allegations, plus access to FamilySearch’s Derbyshire transcriptions, although without the images on FamilySearch. It has transcripts of 14,000 baptisms, 190,000 marriages and 400,000 burials from Northamptonshire Family History Society and over 1.4 million baptisms from Nottinghamshire.

JOINER MARRIAGE INDEX £ w joinermarriageindex.co.uk

This site supplements Boyd’s Marriage Index with pre-1837 marriages. It has 514,678 records for Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and Northamptonshire. Searching is free, but you pay to see the full records.

FREEREG w freereg.org.uk

Thousands of East Midlands records are new here.

THEGENEALOGIST £ w thegenealogist.co.uk

Search transcriptions from Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and Rutland.

LINCS TO THE PAST w www.lincstothepast.com/help/parish-registers/ how-to-look-at-parish-registers

This site has browsable registers from Lincolnshire Archives. To find relevant records, use the index on FamilySearch.