There seem to be newcomers here who haven't yet discovered GENUKI, probably THE major umbrella website for all UK and Irish genealogical research. The Yorkshire pages of GENUKI are a fantastic resource and should be very high up in everyone's "favourites". Here's the URL.... http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ There are links to every place in Yorkshire, lists of all the parishes, churches, archives in each Riding, where the records are, etc., etc., etc., and buckets more information about the county. By using Genuki, and especially the Yorkshire web pages, probably 95% of the basic questions that get asked here regularly can be answered! For instance, it isn't necessary to ask what the main parish church of Halifax is. Just navigate your way to..... http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/WRY/Halifax/index.html ...and all will be revealed! -- Roy Stockdill Guild of One-Name Studies: www.one-name.org Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE