EAST MIDLANDS

Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Rutland and Lincolnshire

Ancestry £ ancestry.co.uk

Ancestry already had its 3.3 millionstrong Derbyshire Parish Registers (1538-1910) collection, which was joined by a huge Northamptonshire collection in 2016. Over 7 million parish register records from 1532 to 1912.

FamilySearch familysearch.org

Important collections include the Derbyshire (1537-1918) collection, with baptisms, marriages/ banns, and burials.

Findmypast £ findmypast.co.uk

Exclusive county collections are bolstered by FHS data. Its Lincolnshire Collection consists of over 4.4 million records. There are 2 million baptism records, searchable by name, year, place and parents’ names. It also has a Lincolnshire Marriage Index (1700-1837) courtesy of Lincolnshire FHS, plus datasets from Doncaster FHS and Northamptonshire FHS. There’s over 1.1 million Leicestershire baptism records (1538-1916) and 670,000 marriage records.

FreeREG freereg.org.uk

Includes parish registers for Derbyshire (458,943), Leicestershire (234,097), Lincolnshire (3,182,077), Rutland (17,747), Northamptonshire (1,117,384) and Nottinghamshire (1,155,827).

Lincs to the Past www.lincstothepast.com/help/ parish-registers

Free access to images of parish registers. Use the index on FreeREG.