In a message dated 2/22/2004 4:50:08 PM Eastern Standard Time, Cardi2 writes: > John, lots of Americans don't know the difference beween the Parish Register and a BT. In fact, they don't even know what is a Parish Register and a BT. We don't have a state church in the USA and church records are not as important as they are in the UK. We have other records to look at such as land and property, wills and probates, county and family histories, vital records (which are not called registration here in the USA although some English magazines seem to think so), tax records, military records, cemetery records, and many other records as well. In fact, church records, although they are very important, would probably be down on the list of things to be looked at. Most people doing research on a UK ancestor don't even know the religion of their ancestor. And the ones that do, often don't know the difference between a Calvinist Methodist and a Wesleyan Methodist especially when their ancestor, like my own father, said he was a Methodist. > > If you asked! them if they looked up a church record in England or Wales, they would probably say it is the parish registers. > I'm sure that Kathi knows the difference but there others on this list who may not. That was the reason for my email to alert others to know that they can obtain the BT's from their local FHC but not the PR's and the reason why they can't. > > Annie> > > > > > > I concur with Annie Lloyd about the IGI, but unless I > have misunderstood