Hallo Sue, I have just found this on the Family Search Archive in response to my typing in "Parloc" into a Google search:- Parish Locator (ParLoc) is a great utility to have on hand Jill, for UK research. It's a Windows program and enables you to locate any one of over 15,000 UK parishes. It will produce a list of parishes in any County or a list of parishes within a given radius of any other parish and also allows Import and Export via "csv" files. It is possible to plot the location of parishes to either the screen or the printer. The latest version also includes a number of corrections to errors found by users. The parishes listed were those in existence at some during the period from the mid 1500s to about 1837 when civil registration started but see section 2.2 of the Manual for full details. It can be downloaded (free) at: http://www.parloc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ParLoc.htm It should help you with identifying your parishes. Good Hunting. Joan On 22 February 2010 21:52, S FOWLER <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jenny > > Thank you so much for all that info. I have realised that my Geography is > not that bad, it is my understanding of Parishes that is the problem.I know > my own local ones, so why not other ones? Your email has inspired me. We are > never too oold to learn! > > Thanks again > > Sue > > By the way, good luck in your research > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Jenny De Angelis <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, 22 February, 2010 10:03:30 > Subject: Re: [WRY] Help please with Scholes > > HI Sue, > > Why not buy something like a road map of Britain. I have one that only > cost > a few pounds it is in book form by the AA & was sold by a supermarket chain > a few years ago. Have a look for something like that. I find this book > of road maps helps to find where places are so that I can then begin to > look > back in time in the right area. > > You can also buy copies of old ordnance survey maps which also help to show > you where places are or were, some small villages will probably have > disappeared over time. Other places will have been absorbed into large > areas > too as time has gone by. > > There is a company that sells reproduction ordnance survey maps, google for > Alan Godfrey maps. > > Use the Genuki website at www.genuki.org.uk to find your way about the UK. > This site is specifically for Genealogy/Family History in the UK the names > is made up from GENealogy UK & Ireland. It is set out by country then by > county and each county page has a link at the top to the Towns and Parishes > within that county and also a link at the top of the page for further > information on that County where you will find links to all sorts of > subjects to do with your research. You will find links to maps too on the > genuki site. > All very useful and you will probably want to bookmark this site for future > use as you will want to keep coming back to it for more help and > inspiration > on where to look next. > > Regards > Jenny DeAngelis > Spain. > > <<One) I am rubbish at Geography, or as Jean put it "geographically > challenged". > Two) I never knew that you could gain so much more information from a > census > page just by clicking on the ED Number as Jenny explained. > Three) There are so many knowledgeable people out there who are more than > pleased to pass this knowledge on>> > > > > > > > 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 > > > > 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 >