"Daniel Morgan" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected] >A friend has discovered an ancestor who came from Northamptonshire, born >circa 1620. This is a new county for both of us. Are Northamptonshire >parish registers online anywhere? Northamptonshire is one of the counties where a lot of effort has been put into FreeReg ( http://www.freereg.org.uk/ ), partly because the registers were never allowed to be filmed by the LDS. Also there's a lot on Alan Clark's website ( http://www.familyhistorynorthants.co.uk/ ) which might be interest. Steven --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com