Yorkshire And The Humber

Including East Yorkshire, North Yorkshire and West Riding

Ancestry £ w ancestry.co.uk

The deal with West Yorkshire Archive Service has resulted in millions of preand post-1813 records for the area, and the site has transcribed material for the remainder of the county as well.

FreeREG FREE w freereg.org.uk

The site is great for anyone with Yorkshire ancestors, offering data for all three historic ridings that is led by 2,166,390 records for West Riding.

FamilySearch FREE w familysearch.org.uk

No new parish material has appeared, but the site has good coverage in North Riding, as well as bonds and allegations from the Diocese of York.

6KHIÀHOG ,QGH[HUV FREE w sheffieldindexers.com/ ParishBaptismIndex.html

The website has added baptisms for Christ Church, Hillsborough & Wadsley Bridge, and All Saints, Brightside. There are excellent search options as well.

Findmypast £ w findmypast.co.uk

Findmypast also had no major additions in 2020, but its ongoing partnership with the Yorkshire Digitization Consortium – which includes the Borthwick Institute of Archives, and East Riding and North Yorkshire archives – makes it the place to go for the area. The website also has Catholic registers for Middlesbrough diocese.

TheGenealogist £ w thegenealogist.co.uk

The site’s nonconformist collection contains more than eight million records for Quakers (see the pictured record), Methodists, Wesleyans, Baptists, Independents, Protestant Dissenters, Congregationalists, Presbyterians and Unitarians, and covers Yorkshire as well as other areas across England and Wales.