Hertfordshire, England Genealogy

England Hertfordshire

Guide to  ancestry, family history and genealogy parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

County Information
Hertfordshire (abbreviated Herts ) is a county in south east England and is one of the "Home Counties" surrounding London along with Surrey, Essex, Kent, Berkshire, and Buckinghamshire. The county town is Hertford. The county takes its name from Hertford meaning a ford frequented by harts or stags.

The major towns are Hertford, St Albans (built on the site of a Roman settlement, Verulamium), Watford, Hatfield, and Letchworth (Britain's first Garden City).

Jurisdictions
Use an interactive mapto find jurisdictions for each parish in Hertfordshire.

Civil Districts
When civil registration of births, marriages and deaths began in 1837, Hertfordshire was divided into a number of registration districts, each containing several parishes. The index to the civil records gives the name of the district where an event took place. Click here to see a list of the civil districts in Hertfordshire and the parishes covered by each.

Read more about England Civil Registration.

Probate Jurisdictions
Before 1858, every town and parish in Hertfordshire was under the probate jurisdiction of several ecclesiastical courts. To read more about probate records and see a list of Hertfordshire towns and parishes and the probate courts that had jurisdiction over them, go to Hertfordshire Probate Records.

Websites
To view a list of web sites and/or web pages for Hertfordshire and many of its parishes, visit FHLFavorites.info.
 * Hertfordshire Resources and help pages on RootsChat Hertfordshire Resources and help pages. (Free).

Hertfordshire Names Online: Courtesy of the Hertfordshire Record Office