The other night I blew £6 and bought 150 "credits" (meaning database hits) at http:www/englishorigins.com, which has been putting Boyd's Marriage Index online. I'll share what I found (and didn't find) in subsequent posts, but as background, here's a little of what the website says about this source: "Boyd's Marriage Index is an index to English marriages taken from copies of parish marriage registers, Bishop's Transcripts and marriage licenses, for the period 1538 to 1840 (when statutory registration began). It was principally the work of Percival Boyd, MA, FSA, FSG (1866–1955) and his staff. It was made at his expense between 1925 and 1955, and has since been expanded. "The index is particularly important to anyone researching East Anglian ancestry for not only is the coverage almost complete (over 95% of all the ancient parishes are included), but little of this data is available anywhere else (for example, the International Genealogical Index has very limited coverage of this area). "Origins.net are digitising the original printed index (Main Series first and then the First Miscellaneous Series) and will be adding the data to English Origins as each county is complete. "Currently available are the records for Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk and Yorkshire. If you are searching marriages in one of these counties there is a high probability that it will be in the index." Note the limited number of counties online so far. This site bears watching as more volumes are uploaded.