I agree with Jean. We two must have been the unlucky ones yesterday. I too found that the YKS parish register section of the Internet Archive site opened first time for me this morning when I tried. I have been glued to it most of the day, fitting in making meals during the day has been the only nuisance I encountered today. I have found pages and pages of at least one parish that contains the name HIRST/HURST/HYRST, a very common name in Yorkshire. I next have to go through these PRs looking for DUNHILL and variants to find which parishes they lived in. I discovered that by going to the end of a given parish's record on the site I found the index to surnames where there is an alphabetical list by first names with page numbers for each entry of where each first name appears under a given surname, if you see what I mean. Thankyou David for putting the link on the list yesterday. Regards Jenny DeAngelis Spain.

Although these registers do not apply to any of my ancestors in the West Riding, Yorkshire (Irish immigrants), it is very exciting to see records that early. I learned more about Latin also... Great resource!! Ann Harney

I've examined both the West Riding and Leeds pages, now, Collin, but they are a bit too early for me. I am in need of the 1770's to 1810's period in all branches I'm researching in Yorkshire. my people of interest are Charles Murfitt b. abt 1777, d. abt 1843, son of either John Murfitt and Sarah Charlesworth or Samuel Murfitt and Frances Chew. Charles m. first Sarah Clifforth/Clifford, no data on her, but they were married 6 Apr 1801 in Birstall and she had one known child, William Clifforth Murfitt b. 24 Nov 1803 Birstall who's name changed to William Clifford Moffitt when he moved to the U.S. Sarah died before 7 Mar 1806 in Birstall. she might be Sally Clifford chr. 6 Oct 1779 Birstall dau. of William. Charles Murfitt m. 2nd to Martha Scholefield 17 Nov 1806 Birstall. I do not know if they had any children. William m. Martha Mason b. 25 Mar 1810 Armley, she was a daughter of William Mason b. 2 Jun 1774 Armley and Martha Smith, no data on her. we do know that William Mason and Martha Smith married 1 May 1796 in Batley. I have not found when or where William Murfitt and Martha Mason married. it is believed she came to America with her brother William, and that their brother Christopher followed afterwards. also, it is believed that William Murfitt came with William Mason. I have yet to find immigration records for them, though. William Murfitt and Martha Mason are found in Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S.A. in the 1840 census. William Mason is living next door to them in 1850, and cannot be found in 1840 in the U.S. or 1841 in England, so the supposition that they came together (along with the family stories) may be wrong. we believe that William Mason Sr.'s father was Christopher Mason but have nothing more on him. if I could access the parish records for those periods and dates, I might find more on the people I'm researching, but I haven't accessed them as yet. we do know they were Church of England. we've been fortunate to find a lot of birth dates for the family, and do have their chr. dates, as well. I hope I haven't left out any data that should be here. regards, BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; } Cornelia On Sun 12/13/09 12:01 AM , [email protected] sent: Today's Topics: 1. Re: online parish registers (Colin Hinson) 2. Re: online parish registers (Brenda Green) 3. re online registers (Jean Belfitt) 4. Re: Online parish registers. (Jenny De Angelis) 5. Re: Online parish registers. (ChrisB) 6. Re: Online parish registers. (Andy Micklethwaite) 7. Re: Online parish registers. (Annette Watson) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 08:32:19 +0000 From: Colin Hinson Subject: Re: [WRY] online parish registers To: [email protected] [2] Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Hi Cornelia, I have some of the Leeds registers on-line on the Genuki site (transcribed by Jack Parry and David Simpson). These go up to around the mid 1700s. There are also some of the early Armley registers there. (see the Leeds Parish page). 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/ [4] Old and Rare Yorkshire Books on searchable CDroms: http://www.YorkshireCDbooks.com [5] >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > after digging in to nearly every single one of the Yorkshire parish >registers, more than half of which do not state up front which parish >they are for, and some having 3 books for the parish when others have >only one, I was quite disappointed to learn that none of these were >for my parishes of interest. the ones I didn't dig into did have the >parish name up front. does anyone know if books have been published >for the parishes of; > > Leeds, Batley, Armley, Hightown, Birstall...and Littletown. my >interests are in the early 1800's and any time before that. > > regards, > > Cornelia ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 08:40:21 -0000 From: "Brenda Green" Subject: Re: [WRY] online parish registers To: , Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi Cornelia Try the Yorkshire Parish Register Society http://www.yorkshireparishregisters.com/publications.htm#cdsales [10] They definitely do Birstall, not so sure about the others. regards Kind regards Brenda Green www.yorkshireancestors.com [11] ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] [12] To: [email protected] [13] Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 6:04 AM Subject: Re: [WRY] online parish registers after digging in to nearly every single one of the Yorkshire parish registers, more than half of which do not state up front which parish they are for, and some having 3 books for the parish when others have only one, I was quite disappointed to learn that none of these were for my parishes of interest. the ones I didn't dig into did have the parish name up front. does anyone know if books have been published for the parishes of; Leeds, Batley, Armley, Hightown, Birstall...and Littletown. my interests are in the early 1800's and any time before that. regards, Cornelia Some useful websites - FREECEN - http://www.freecen.org.uk/ [14] FREEBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ [15] Want to know where a place in Yorkshire is - Try Genuki http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ [16] ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] [17] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 13:32:14 -0000 From: "Jean Belfitt" Subject: [WRY] re online registers To: Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I was really excited when I saw the link for the Yorkshire online parish registers, especially as 2 of the areas I'm searching are said to appear on there already. I think everyone else did the same as me - clicked the link immediately, and the site server is down. Perhaps another day - thanks all for the telling us about it and what's on there - makes a change for some free information that won't cost us an arm and a leg in membership fees! Jean Belfitt ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:07:56 +0100 From: "Jenny De Angelis" Subject: Re: [WRY] Online parish registers. To: Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original I have tried various times to open the link below, both yesterday and again today, but I get a message saying that the search engine returned invalid information or was unresponsive and that they are trying to resolve the problem. I tried going to the home page of the site and searching there for parish registers but again I got up the same message. Why can't I open the page? have others had a similar problem? Do I need to register before I can get the page open perhaps? The list of parishes that David posted in a later message has a few parish that interest me and it is so annoying that I can't get the page to open and have a look : - ((((((( Regards Jenny DeAngelis Spain. ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:09:58 -0000 From: "ChrisB" Subject: Re: [WRY] Online parish registers. To: Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Jenny I have had the same problem in the past But on most occasions it works perfectly well ChrisB -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [28] [[email protected] [29]]On Behalf Of Jenny De Angelis Sent: 12 December 2009 14:08 To: [email protected] [30] Subject: Re: [WRY] Online parish registers. I have tried various times to open the link below, both yesterday and again today, but I get a message saying that the search engine returned invalid information or was unresponsive and that they are trying to resolve the problem. I tried going to the home page of the site and searching there for parish registers but again I got up the same message. Why can't I open the page? have others had a similar problem? Do I need to register before I can get the page open perhaps? The list of parishes that David posted in a later message has a few parish that interest me and it is so annoying that I can't get the page to open and have a look : - ((((((( Regards Jenny DeAngelis Spain. Some useful websites - FREECEN - http://www.freecen.org.uk/ [32] FREEBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ [33] Want to know where a place in Yorkshire is - Try Genuki http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ [34] ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] [35] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:11:30 +0000 From: Andy Micklethwaite Subject: Re: [WRY] Online parish registers. To: [email protected] [37] Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 09:44 11/12/2009, Don wrote: >The easiest way to find files of interest to yourself is to search with just >your relevant parish name and then recheck the site periodically as new >stuff is appearing all the time. I opened one file and found it had only >been uploaded 25 minutes before. So this list may be out of date: Un-numbered Hickleton 1 Aldborough 3 Horbury 6 Patrington 8 Blacktoft 12 Brantingham 15 Cherry Burton 16 Marske in Cleveland 17 Hartshead 19 Bolton by Holland 20 Pickhill-Cum-Roxby 24 Howden 29 Terrington 33 Otley Part 1 34 Rothwell 38 Settrington 39 Austerfield 40 Thornhill 41 Goodramgate 42 Thirsk 43 Danby-in-Cleveland 44 Otley Part 2 48 Howden 49 Darrington 50 Harewood 52 St Mary, Bishophill Junior, York 53 Thornhill & Flockton 80 Ripon 90 Great Ayton Best Wishes, Andy ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 09:25:11 +1100 From: Annette Watson Subject: Re: [WRY] Online parish registers. To: [email protected] [40] Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Hi Jenny, I have been able to open it - maybe it is a problem with your computer - at times they do seem to have a mind of there own. Best of luck and happy hunting Annette Watson Lismore Australia At 03:07 PM 12/12/2009 +0100, you wrote: >I have tried various times to open the link below, both yesterday and again >today, but I get a message saying that the search engine returned invalid >information or was unresponsive and that they are trying to resolve the >problem. I tried going to the home page of the site and searching there >for parish registers but again I got up the same message. Why can't I open >the page? have others had a similar problem? Do I need to register before >I can get the page open perhaps? > >The list of parishes that David posted in a later message has a few parish >that interest me and it is so annoying that I can't get the page to open and >have a look : - ((((((( > >Regards >Jenny DeAngelis >Spain. > >> > > > > > >Some useful websites - >FREECEN - http://www.freecen.org.uk/ [43] >FREEBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ [44] >Want to know where a place in Yorkshire is - Try Genuki >http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ [45] > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] [46] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------ To contact the WEST-RIDING list administrator, send an email to [email protected] [47]. To post a message to the WEST-RIDING mailing list, send an email to [email protected] [48]. __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] [49] with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. End of WEST-RIDING Digest, Vol 4, Issue 317 ******************************************* Links: ------ [1] mailto:[email protected] [2] mailto:[email protected] [3] mailto:[email protected] [4] http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ [5] http://www.YorkshireCDbooks.com [6] mailto:[email protected] [7] mailto:[email protected] [8] mailto:[email protected] [9] mailto:[email protected] [10] http://www.yorkshireparishregisters.com/publications.htm#cdsales [11] http://www.yorkshireancestors.com [12] mailto:[email protected] [13] mailto:[email protected] [14] http://www.freecen.org.uk/ [15] http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ [16] http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ [17] mailto:[email protected] [18] mailto:[email protected] [19] mailto:[email protected] [20] mailto:[email protected] [21] mailto:[email protected] [22] mailto:[email protected] [23] mailto:[email protected] [24] http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=yorkshire%20parish%20register [25] mailto:[email protected] [26] mailto:[email protected] [27] mailto:[email protected] [28] mailto:[email protected] [29] mailto:[email protected] [30] mailto:[email protected] [31] http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=yorkshire%20parish%20register [32] http://www.freecen.org.uk/ [33] http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ [34] http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ [35] mailto:[email protected] [36] mailto:[email protected] [37] mailto:[email protected] [38] mailto:[email protected] [39] mailto:[email protected] [40] mailto:[email protected] [41] mailto:[email protected] [42] https://webmail.uslogin.net/parse.php?redirect=http://www.archive.org/search.php%3Fquery%3Dyorkshire%2520parish%2520register [43] https://webmail.uslogin.net/parse.php?redirect=http://www.freecen.org.uk/ [44] https://webmail.uslogin.net/parse.php?redirect=http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ [45] https://webmail.uslogin.net/parse.php?redirect=http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ [46] mailto:[email protected] [47] mailto:[email protected] [48] mailto:[email protected] [49] mailto:[email protected]

Jean, hi, Yes, although more commonly written as xiv, xiiij is 14 and xj is 11. The Latin alphabet didn't have a 'j' and I believe that adding a tail to the final 'i' in numerals was simply the style of the period, as any contemporary reader would know it was not a 'j'. In text also, where names were latinised, 'i' could be substituted for 'j' as in Benjamin/Beniamin. Similarly, 's' was often written as what we see as an 'f' with a tail and 'u' & 'v' were interchangeable. There is a guide to the Latin used in parish registers on the FreeREG site (amongst many other sites); try these links. http://www.freereg.org.uk/howto/readnumbers.htm http://www.freereg.org.uk/howto/latinnames.htm http://www.freereg.org.uk/howto/latinwords.htm Regards, Dom O'malley.

It seems the 'j' is the last 'i' so x1j would be 12. As for the rest it's all Greek to me ChrisB -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Jean Belfitt Sent: 13 December 2009 12:12 To: [email protected] Subject: [WRY] online registers I think Jenny and I were the unlucky ones yesterday. Today the Yorkshire volumes have opened with no problem and I'm currently wading through the Snaith section. Never having seen anything from as early as 1500's it was so enthralling seeing the first pages written in Latin. Now I understand why they tried to teach it to us in grammar school - sad but at 12 years old, I was looking to the future, not backwards and I chose to do German instead. Can anyone enlighten me, in roman numerals I have never seen j used. What does xiiijth mean? I recognise xiii as 13 but can't figure out what j relates to. Also seen one that is xjth. Is that just 10th? Thanks. Jean Some useful websites - FREECEN - http://www.freecen.org.uk/ FREEBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ Want to know where a place in Yorkshire is - Try Genuki http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I think Jenny and I were the unlucky ones yesterday. Today the Yorkshire volumes have opened with no problem and I'm currently wading through the Snaith section. Never having seen anything from as early as 1500's it was so enthralling seeing the first pages written in Latin. Now I understand why they tried to teach it to us in grammar school - sad but at 12 years old, I was looking to the future, not backwards and I chose to do German instead. Can anyone enlighten me, in roman numerals I have never seen j used. What does xiiijth mean? I recognise xiii as 13 but can't figure out what j relates to. Also seen one that is xjth. Is that just 10th? Thanks. Jean

thank you to all who replied, both to me personally and to others on the list, you've been very helpful. what I could not access yesterday works fine today, including the Y. archealogical society site, so all is well. esp. thanks to Andy for that list! Y. A. S. has two numbers for Birstall, and since Horbury is #3 on your list, then I assume the #3 they have for Birstall is for another list. I would assume that makes the other number, #164, Birstall's number for the list Andy posted, which would mean that there are hundreds of parish records not available for free online. well, off to do more digging around, it's been a while so there's lots of new items of interest. oh, since I'm here, don't forget to check openlibrary.org. lots of scanned books to read on it, and my favorite reading program of all that are on the net. pages flip smoothly and type is clear and easy on the eyes. a check of Birstall displayed 3 pages of books of interest for that parish. unfortunately in this instance, none have been scanned. but they will be, some day. they do include the Parish records of Birstall. this company scans books from everywhere in the world, and also lists books that they have not yet been cleared to scan, and books they have not yet got around to scanning, but I've already made a few breakthroughs from books they have scanned. they are actively busy scanning books, so if the book you want isn't scanned, keep checking back. I found a book written by a distant cousin, Walter Burton Harris of Surrey and Morocco, scanned at openlibrary. I found that many U.S. county histories are also scanned at openlibrary. it's a treasure trove for researchers. Cornelia BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }

Hi Jenny, I have been able to open it - maybe it is a problem with your computer - at times they do seem to have a mind of there own. Best of luck and happy hunting Annette Watson Lismore Australia At 03:07 PM 12/12/2009 +0100, you wrote: >I have tried various times to open the link below, both yesterday and again >today, but I get a message saying that the search engine returned invalid >information or was unresponsive and that they are trying to resolve the >problem. I tried going to the home page of the site and searching there >for parish registers but again I got up the same message. Why can't I open >the page? have others had a similar problem? Do I need to register before >I can get the page open perhaps? > >The list of parishes that David posted in a later message has a few parish >that interest me and it is so annoying that I can't get the page to open and >have a look : - ((((((( > >Regards >Jenny DeAngelis >Spain. > ><<< http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=yorkshire%20parish%20register > >> > > > > > >Some useful websites - >FREECEN - http://www.freecen.org.uk/ >FREEBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ >Want to know where a place in Yorkshire is - Try Genuki >http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message

In medieval texts and some early printed books, the numerals are written in lower case letters and u was frequently substituted for v. In the final position of the numeral, j could be used instead of i. So 18 could be written xuiij rather than XVIII. These substitutions are particularly found in italic fonts. Me again this bit explains so your xiiij is 14th printed that way instead of xiiii

_http://www.web40571.clarahost.co.uk/roman/howtheywork.htm_ (http://www.web40571.clarahost.co.uk/roman/howtheywork.htm) This will explain how the j is used I think

Its the 14th Jean as far as I know best wishes Valerie

At 09:44 11/12/2009, Don wrote: >The easiest way to find files of interest to yourself is to search with just >your relevant parish name and then recheck the site periodically as new >stuff is appearing all the time. I opened one file and found it had only >been uploaded 25 minutes before. So this list may be out of date: Un-numbered Hickleton 1 Aldborough 3 Horbury 6 Patrington 8 Blacktoft 12 Brantingham 15 Cherry Burton 16 Marske in Cleveland 17 Hartshead 19 Bolton by Holland 20 Pickhill-Cum-Roxby 24 Howden 29 Terrington 33 Otley Part 1 34 Rothwell 38 Settrington 39 Austerfield 40 Thornhill 41 Goodramgate 42 Thirsk 43 Danby-in-Cleveland 44 Otley Part 2 48 Howden 49 Darrington 50 Harewood 52 St Mary, Bishophill Junior, York 53 Thornhill & Flockton 80 Ripon 90 Great Ayton Best Wishes, Andy

Jenny I have had the same problem in the past But on most occasions it works perfectly well ChrisB -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Jenny De Angelis Sent: 12 December 2009 14:08 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WRY] Online parish registers. I have tried various times to open the link below, both yesterday and again today, but I get a message saying that the search engine returned invalid information or was unresponsive and that they are trying to resolve the problem. I tried going to the home page of the site and searching there for parish registers but again I got up the same message. Why can't I open the page? have others had a similar problem? Do I need to register before I can get the page open perhaps? The list of parishes that David posted in a later message has a few parish that interest me and it is so annoying that I can't get the page to open and have a look : - ((((((( Regards Jenny DeAngelis Spain. <<< http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=yorkshire%20parish%20register >> Some useful websites - FREECEN - http://www.freecen.org.uk/ FREEBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ Want to know where a place in Yorkshire is - Try Genuki http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I have tried various times to open the link below, both yesterday and again today, but I get a message saying that the search engine returned invalid information or was unresponsive and that they are trying to resolve the problem. I tried going to the home page of the site and searching there for parish registers but again I got up the same message. Why can't I open the page? have others had a similar problem? Do I need to register before I can get the page open perhaps? The list of parishes that David posted in a later message has a few parish that interest me and it is so annoying that I can't get the page to open and have a look : - ((((((( Regards Jenny DeAngelis Spain. <<< http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=yorkshire%20parish%20register >>

I was really excited when I saw the link for the Yorkshire online parish registers, especially as 2 of the areas I'm searching are said to appear on there already. I think everyone else did the same as me - clicked the link immediately, and the site server is down. Perhaps another day - thanks all for the telling us about it and what's on there - makes a change for some free information that won't cost us an arm and a leg in membership fees! Jean Belfitt

Hi Cornelia Try the Yorkshire Parish Register Society http://www.yorkshireparishregisters.com/publications.htm#cdsales They definitely do Birstall, not so sure about the others. regards Kind regards Brenda Green www.yorkshireancestors.com ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 6:04 AM Subject: Re: [WRY] online parish registers after digging in to nearly every single one of the Yorkshire parish registers, more than half of which do not state up front which parish they are for, and some having 3 books for the parish when others have only one, I was quite disappointed to learn that none of these were for my parishes of interest. the ones I didn't dig into did have the parish name up front. does anyone know if books have been published for the parishes of; Leeds, Batley, Armley, Hightown, Birstall...and Littletown. my interests are in the early 1800's and any time before that. regards, Cornelia Some useful websites - FREECEN - http://www.freecen.org.uk/ FREEBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ Want to know where a place in Yorkshire is - Try Genuki http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Cornelia, I have some of the Leeds registers on-line on the Genuki site (transcribed by Jack Parry and David Simpson). These go up to around the mid 1700s. There are also some of the early Armley registers there. (see the Leeds Parish page). 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/ Old and Rare Yorkshire Books on searchable CDroms: http://www.YorkshireCDbooks.com >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > after digging in to nearly every single one of the Yorkshire parish >registers, more than half of which do not state up front which parish >they are for, and some having 3 books for the parish when others have >only one, I was quite disappointed to learn that none of these were >for my parishes of interest. the ones I didn't dig into did have the >parish name up front. does anyone know if books have been published >for the parishes of; > > Leeds, Batley, Armley, Hightown, Birstall...and Littletown. my >interests are in the early 1800's and any time before that. > > regards, > > Cornelia

after digging in to nearly every single one of the Yorkshire parish registers, more than half of which do not state up front which parish they are for, and some having 3 books for the parish when others have only one, I was quite disappointed to learn that none of these were for my parishes of interest. the ones I didn't dig into did have the parish name up front. does anyone know if books have been published for the parishes of; Leeds, Batley, Armley, Hightown, Birstall...and Littletown. my interests are in the early 1800's and any time before that. regards, Cornelia

Thanks to ChrisB for listing the available parishes; I haven't got that far with Yorkshire, having just turned my attention there from the Lancashire registers. The easiest way to find files of interest to yourself is to search with just your relevant parish name and then recheck the site periodically as new stuff is appearing all the time. I opened one file and found it had only been uploaded 25 minutes before. I first came across the site a couple of months ago and started looking at the Lancashire registers first because there weren't many Yorkshire parishes listed. Last night, before posting the message, I checked three counties, searching by 'parish register .....shire' and found 61 Yorkshire files, 48 Lancashire files and 2 Cheshire files. Regards, Dom O'Malley.

Up to around 6 weeks ago there were the following Yorks registers of various years and various books of interest on the site. Here goes: - Aldborough, Allerton Mauleverer, Almondbury Church Annals, Austerfield, Barwick in Elmet, Bingley Chronicles, Blacktoft, Bolton by Bowland, Brantingham, Brighouse/Rastrick History, Cherry Burton, Conistone/Burnsall in Craven, Danby in Clevceland, Darrington, Darrington History, Dewsbury, Dugdales Visitation, Ecclesfield, Feet of Fines for County of York, Gargrave, Goodramgate,Great Ayton, Grinton, Hackness, Halifax Book Authors, Halifax History,Hampsthwaite, Harewood, Harewood History, Hartshead,Hickleton, Horbury, Howden, another Howden, Huggate,Kirby Overblow History, Ledsham,4 vols of Leeds 1571 to 1680, Manningham & Heaton Hostory, Marske in ClevelandMirfield, Monk Fryston,Morley, 2x Otley, Patrington, Pickhill cum Roxby, Richmondshire Wills, Ripon, Rotherham Marriages, Rothwell, Settrington, Sheffield, Snaith, St Mary Bishophill York, Terrington,Thirsk, 2x Thornhill, Topcliffe Marley, Visitation of York, Wath on Dearne, Winestead, York Goodramgate, Yorkshire Place Names, York St Mary Junior and York St Michaels. One or two of these may have been downloaded from other sites and obviously there may be some recent additions or others that were of little relevance to my research. Enjoy ChrisB BTW - A similar number of Lancashire volumes are also available for download -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of sally roberts Sent: 11 December 2009 08:40 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WRY] Online parish registers. Thank you for the link, it looks very interesting. Bang goes more hours that should have been spent getting ready for the festive season.... :o) Regards, Sally > Hi, > > A group called Internet Archive are uploading Yorkshire Parish Register > Society volumes (and much more) onto the internet with free public access. > This link, when copied and pasted, takes you to the results I got for a > 'Yorkshire parish register' search. > > http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=yorkshire%20parish%20register Some useful websites - FREECEN - http://www.freecen.org.uk/ FREEBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ Want to know where a place in Yorkshire is - Try Genuki http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message