Talk:East Ardsley, Yorkshire Genealogy

New Parish Table
East Ardsley parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the West Yorkshire Archive Service.

Old Parish Table
Online data content from chapelry registers of East Ardsley exists at some of the following websites and for the specified ranges of years:

For a full list of all those chapels surrounding **Chapelry** and comprising the whole ancient parish of East Ardsleyto which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the East Ardsley page.

To find the names of the neighbouring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

East Ardsley is an 'ancient' parish (created before 1813). Church of England records for East Ardsley survive from 1662 (St.Michael's).

The original registers are deposited at theWest Yorkshire Archives in Wakefield.

The copies made by the minister (ordered by an Act of 1598) and sent each year to the Bishop of the diocese (known as parish register transcripts or Bishop's transcripts) survive from 1598 (with gaps) and are deposited at the West Yorkshire Archives branch in Sheepscar, Leeds.

The Family History Library in Salt Lake City has both parish registers and bishop's transcripts on microfilm for East Ardsley which are listed in the. Many of these records are indexed in the International Genealogical Index available online through the 'Advanced Search' at www.familysearch.org.