Hi Folks, I am very pleased to be able to announce that Colin Blanshard Withers has donated the contents of his book "Yorkshire Parish Registers" to Genuki. This is an extremely valuable addition to the Genuki Yorksire web-site, as I'm sure any of you who have used the book will agree. My thanks to Colin for this. Over the past weeks I have been doing various "clean up" jobs on the Genuki Yorkshire site in order to make it easier for me to maintain. In addition to this, I've written the software to split Colin's book data into the various ancient parishes and to generate the relevant pages containing this data. You will find links into the "YPR" data from under the heading "Church Records" in each Ancient parish page on the Genuki Yorkshire site. The addition of these page brings the total for the Genuki Yorkshire site to over 12,000, so if you are new to the Genuki Yorkshire site, please take the time to have a look at the various pages concerning "Important Information", defintions of terms etc. linked to from the top of the main Genuki Yorkshire page, as this should make your navigation of the site a lot easier. As this message goes out, I am in the process of uploading all the pages for the YPR data, but I don't have control over the Wakefield area pages which Angela Petyt maintains. She will no doubt update the links in her pages in the near future. In addition to the above there are a few updates to the pages too - see below my signature. I've no doubt missed some, so my apologies to those who submitted the information if this is the case. Best wishes, Colin Hinson In the village of Blunham in Bedfordshire U.K. Webmaster for the Genuki Yorkshire pages: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ Rare Books on CD: http://www.blunham.demon.co.uk/CDroms/ Yorkshire Genealogist, Harrogate Records, Todmorden area, Baine's, Bulmers & Whites directories, Heywood/Northowram, Histories: Craven, York & NRY, Yorkshire, Holderness, Brighouse Halifax, Hunter's Hallamshire (Sheffield), Hull Places in brackets are the relevant (ancient) parishes. Unless otherwise specified, the churches are C of E. Don't forget the surnames interest list for Yorkshire: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/YKSlist/ -------------------------------------- Bill Henderson Church Photographs: WRY: Burley St Matthias (Leeds) Stainburn (Kirkby Overblow) -------------------------------------- Sandra Welburn: War Memorial transcriptions: ERY: Helperthorpe Hollym NRY: Helmsley WRY: Harthill Hexthorpe -------------------------------------- Phil Draper: Church Photographs: WRY: Kirkburton -------------------------------------- Alan Longbottom - transcriptions: WRY: Arksey: Arksey with Bentley - the school -------------------------------------- Colin Hinson: All the above added to data base and formatted for the web. Added links to Bridlington.net from Bridlington parish page. Corrected confusion with Arbourthorne Community church and centre.