This is a link to a wonderful site http://www.archive.org/index.php where you can search for "out of copyright" publications. If you put the term " the parish registers of England" without quotation marks and just read the first result, you will find an excellent insight into our parish registers, their history, content and extracts. Answers many questions asked of late. Have got to page 170 of the book myself so far. Do a general search "genealogy England" and you get three pages of results.... may be something there if you are researching other counties too. some of the texts have shiplists such as 1635] y PORT OF LONDON. 61 th Aprill 1635 JN the Eliza. . Anne de Lon m' ROGER COOPER v r s New England PERCY KINGE 24 yers. a Maid seruant to m' Ro: CROWLEY: IN the Eliza. . de Lo. m' W M STAGG vrs New England JAMES WALKER 15 yers SARRA. WALKER 17 yers: Seru''s to Jo" BROWNE a Baker f to on W" BRASEY linen drap in Cheapside Lond p Cert, of their Conformity. xviij" Aprilis 1635 |HEIS vnder written names are to be transported to New-England imbarqued in the Increase de Lo: ROBERT LEA M r the ptie prd having brought Certificat's from the Minister f Justices of y e Peace of his conformitie to the Church of England yeres Glover THO: BLOGGETT 30 vxor SUZAN BLOGGETT 37 DANIELL BLOGGET 4) , ( 2 children. SAMVELL BLOGGET i i ) IN the Increase prd. The ptie vnder written hath brought Certifi- cate from the Minister of Wapping from two Justices of peace, of his Conformitie to y e Church of England: to passe in y e said Ship for New-England Lynnen wever THO: CHITTINGDEN 51 vxor RABECCA CHITTINGDEN 40 ISACK CHITTINGDEN 10 HEN: CHITTINGDEN 6 \ 2 children ' ) Randi Bowles-Meentzen

Randi - Thanks for posting this link - I'll be taking a look. Others may be interested that Google has digitized a lot of books out of copyright, some of which may be of interest to genealogists. You can both look at them online and download them. I recently found a nice obit in an old Presbyterian magazine. See: http://books.google.com and play around with the search engine. Elizabeth Richardson > > This is a link to a wonderful site http://www.archive.org/index.php > where you can search for "out of copyright" publications. If you put > the term " the parish registers of England" without quotation marks and >