Leicestershire, England Genealogy

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

County Information
Leicestershire, or Leicester, is an inland county located nearly in the center of 'England' {|
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Parishes
Use an interactive mapto find jurisdictions for each parish in Leicestershire.

Civil Registration Districts
When civil registration of births, marriages and deaths began in 1837, Leicestershire 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 hereto see a list of the civil districts in Leicestershire and the parishes covered by each. Read more about England Civil Registration.

Websites

 * Leicestershire Resources and help pages on RootsChat Leicestershire Resources and help pages. (Free).
 * To read more about probate records and see a list of Leicestershire towns and parishes and the probate courts that had jurisdiction over them, go to Leicestershire Probate Records.
 * To view a further list of web sites and/or web pages for Leicestershire and many of its parishes, visit FHLFavorites.info.

Content to Move
Before 1858, every town and parish in Leicestershire was under the probate jurisdiction of several ecclesiastical courts.