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Major Websites
The table below includes mostly Anglican and some Nonconformist church records that are online at the following major genealogy sites: FamilySearch, Ancestry ($) , FindMyPast ($) and The Genealogist ($). For each county these websites are ranked under the "Index Online" column according to their number of entries from largest to smallest (left to right).

Ancestry, FindMyPast and TheGenealogist are all subscription websites, but can be viewed at Family History Centers (FHCs) and at many public libraries.

A free account is required to access FamilySearch, and some of the images on their websites can only be viewed at FHCs or Affiliate Libraries. Note that the records formerly part of the IGI are excluded from this table. See the next section for those records.

Few, if any, of these collections will be 100% complete.

(the table, with a non-conformist row, but without IGI records and FreeReg. Local websites can also be included)

Readers are invited to help keep this table up to date as companies put more records online.

IGI and FamilySearch Catalog
Starting in 1973, FamilySearch created a major index called the IGI (IGI). It contained both indexed/extracted church register name entries as well as user submitted records (the forerunner to online family trees).

The records that were extracted from original source documents were only ever a small fraction of all existing records. No original images are included. The records are arranged in batches and sometimes it is useful to know what batches correspond to a particular place. Archersoftware, while a few years out of date, provides batch information for the entire British Isles. Many, sometimes even a majority of records, were indexed for Bedfordshire, Berkshire, ... (cull list to 5-10 counties). There are still millions of records for the other counties, and every single county is included.

To find records from a particular place, use the FamilySearch Catalog. Look under "church records" and find the religion, year and record type of interest. If an index is available for the records, a magnifying glass symbol will appear. If a camera symbol also appears, the images are also accessible from any computer. A camera symbol with a key indicates the image is only accessible from a FHC or Affiliate Library. A microfilm symbol means that the images are not yet available online, and can only be viewed on microfilm at the FHL in Salt Lake City.

To do a general search of these records, see the following:


 * England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975, index, incomplete. Also at Ancestry.com, MyHeritage, ($)
 * Great Britain, Births and Baptisms, 1571-1977, index births at sea, British subjects abroad, baptisms of nonconformist chapels in England, etc.; incomplete
 * England Marriages, 1538–1973, index, incomplete. Also at MyHeritage, ($), Ancestry, ($), and findmypast, ($)
 * Great Britain Marriages, 1797-1988, index, incomplete . Also at Ancestry ($)
 * England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991, index, incomplete. Also ar Ancestry, ($), findmypast, ($), and MyHeritage, ($)
 * Great Britain Deaths and Burials, 1778-1988, index, incomplete. Also at Ancestry, ($)
 * Great Britain, Select Deaths and Burials, 1778-1988, ($), index

The other records in the IGI were user submitted. Like all family trees and other published genealogies, caution is required as some information may be incorrect. The user submitted records come from all over the world, with only a small portion relating to England. They can be accessed from the Genealogies.