In a message dated 20/10/2009 19:46:43 GMT Daylight Time, cheyanne@hughes.net writes: Can anyone tell me how I can find parish records for Ellingham? Is there another parish that they are listed under or are they just not on the list at familysearch. labs yet? I am looking for Jacksons around 1770 to about 1840. Mention of "parish records" and "the list at familysearch" together probably means you are seeking the BTs. As has been said before (many times) that list is still only in the "Beta" stage and so is (a) incomplete and (b) quite possibly inaccurate. The "Official" way to find what is where as far as parish registers - but not other parish records - are concerned remains the use of the Society of Genealogists "National Index of Parish Registers", of which Volume XI, Part 2 covers Northumberland and Co Durham. The latest version is the 2nd edition (1984) by C P Neat, revised by D G Mason. That source tells us that Ellingham parish registers, baps 1695-1971, baps of Dissenters (such as are noted in the parish register) 1751-1806, marriages 1695-1835 and burials 1695-1871 are held in Northumberland County Record Office (Woodhorn). Copies of baptisms and burials 1695-1819, with notes of the baptisms of dissenters 1751-1806 and marriages 1695-1804 are held in Newcastle Central Library (ie the H M Wood transcripts), with microfilms of those copies in Salt Lake City. The Society of Genealogists have copies of the same transcripts, although their marriages go up to 1814. The marriages 1695-1814 are included in Boyd's Marriage Index and the Banns 1754-1814 are in Boyd's "Miscellaneous" volume. The marriages 1813-1837 were included in the second volume of Alan Readdie's index to all north Northumberland marriages for that period (now absorbed into the NDFHS index for the whole of Northumberland) and the baptisms 1695-1812 are on the IGI. The BTs cover 1764-1842, with gaps, and are held by Durham University - in 1984 that was in the Department of Palaeography and Diplomatic but now it is in the University Library, Archives and Special Collections. OK, that was written before the days of the internet, but it has an authority that another stage of transcription, such as when records are put "on-line" can never have. The National Index then goes on to give similar, though slightly shorter, accounts of the registers of Ellingham RC church (outside date 1781-1840: some being with the priest of Seahouses RC) and of Ellingham (Linkhall) Methodist New Connexion Church, of which all there is to say is that it was founded by 1795 and was in the Alnwick Circuit. If your Jacksons prove elusive be sure to bear in mind the possibility that, living as close to the Border as they did, they might have been descended from Scottish immigrants and so the first generation after the immigration (at least) would probably have been Presbyterians, with all that implies for where their CMB might be found. Geoff Nicholson