If you are searching for your English ancestors, parish registers are the first place to look! The reason is the “tradition” of preserving family information in church records. Generations of family members are meticulously recorded in parish registers, which include information on baptisms, births, marriages, and deaths. Some of these registers date back to the 1300s! The oldest surviving record in England is the 1100 A. D. Domesday Book, a tax digest. The famous London fire of 1666 destroyed many of the oldest records. Thus, the parish registers serve as vital data to help the genealogist link to the ancient families using printed histories and other resources.
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