From: "Amanda Kerby" <[email protected]> > A friend just alerted me to a resource I was unaware of on the > Familysearch web site, where there are lots of old books of interest to > genealogists which are freely downloadable. Apologies if you already know about > this. > > Go to https://familysearch.org/#form=books > > Click on the green button "Family History books" > Key `Bristol´ for search term and see what you get - 7,248 > results! Even better try the parish name you are looking for. If you then click on > DETAILS it tells you more about each on, or click on the image and it will > load up into a viewer from which you can save to hard drive. > I downloaded the parish register for St Mary Magdalen Bermondsey > last night! Of course you are just lucky if your parish is there.> Another brilliant site for finding books on genealogy and family history is the Internet Archive. This is an enormous site containing all kinds of media and something like 150 BILLION (yup, that's right) archived pages. The URL is: http://archive.org Select "Texts" in the main menu and enter "Bristol England" and you will get 370 hits (not all relevant to family history, of course). Enter "Gloucestershire Parish Registers" and you get 12 hits, while "Somerset Parish Registers" gives you 11. Many of these are volumes of Phillimore marriages. You can either read the books online (and they are searchable) or download them in a number of different formats including PDF. Entering "Bristol England" and selecting All Media produces some fascinating-sounding radio broadcasts and podcasts, including an audiobook of John Latimer's Sixteenth Century Bristol. And don't forget Google Books, either! -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Famous family trees blog: http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/tag/roy-stockdill/ "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE