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

Country Information
England is one of the four constituent countries of the United Kingdom (together with Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland). It has a history that goes back over a thousand years. In 1707, the Kingdom of England joined the Kingdom of Scotland in union to become the Kingdom of Great Britain. The official language is English.

England Map
Genealogy records are kept on the county and parish level in England. The map below shows county boundaries as of 1851. * Click on a county below to go to the county Wiki article listing parishes and more information. * The England counties listed are based on historic boundaries pre-1974. The records dating before 1974 are located within the information found in the historic counties. This practice better assists users who are researching their ancestors before the modern time period. See England County Boundaries for more information.

Counties and Parishes
The England counties listed below are based on historic boundaries pre-1974. Genealogy records are kept on the county and parish level in England. These counties are used throughout websites/databases to organize access to records. Click on a county or parishes link below for more information.  Bedfordshire (parishes) Berkshire (parishes) Buckinghamshire (parishes) Cambridgeshire (parishes) Cheshire (parishes) Cornwall (parishes) Cumberland (parishes) Derbyshire (parishes)</li> Devon (parishes)</li> Dorset (parishes)</li> Durham (parishes)</li> Essex (parishes)</li> Gloucestershire (parishes)</li> Hampshire (parishes)</li> Herefordshire (parishes)</li> Hertfordshire (parishes)</li> Huntingdonshire (parishes)</li> Kent (parishes)</li> Lancashire (parishes)</li> Leicestershire (parishes)</li> Lincolnshire (parishes)</li> London (parishes)</li> Middlesex (parishes)</li> Norfolk (parishes)</li> <li>Northamptonshire (parishes)</li> <li>Northumberland (parishes)</li> <li>Nottinghamshire (parishes)</li> <li>Oxfordshire (parishes)</li> <li>Rutland (parishes)</li> <li>Shropshire (parishes)</li> <li>Somerset (parishes)</li> <li>Staffordshire (parishes)</li> <li>Suffolk (parishes)</li> <li>Surrey (parishes)</li> <li>Sussex (parishes)</li> <li>Warwickshire (parishes)</li> <li>Westmorland (parishes)</li> <li>Wiltshire (parishes)</li> <li>Worcestershire (parishes)</li> <li>Yorkshire (parishes)</li> </ul>

Getting Started

 * Guided Research
 * How to Find Birth Records
 * How to Find Marriage Records
 * How to Find Death Records
 * Research Strategies
 * Research Tools

Research Tools

 * England Record Finder
 * Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales - (1870)
 * England Websites
 * England counties list -with their Chapman Code abbreviations
 * England Jurisdiction 1851 Maps project
 * Topographical Dictionary of England (1848)
 * England Genealogical Discussion Groups
 * The Workhouse
 * thepeerage.com A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe
 * Phillimore's Atlas and Index of Parish Registers (2003) - available at Ancestry
 * Discovering English Ancestors a BYU research guide.
 * Accessing FamilySearch's Record Collections in One Step for England
 * Parish Registers - Family History Before 1837
 * Family Bible Index (with Bibles from England)