Medieval source material on the internet: Parish registers

Parish registers

• Some early baptisms and marriages (which in principle may be recorded from 1538) are included in the I.G.I., searchable at FamilySearch (L.D.S.)
  A listing of parishes and dates included is available on Hugh Wallis's IGI Batch Numbers web pages, which also allows searches to be made for entries from a particular parish
• Many more parish register extracts and transcripts are appearing on the internet; a useful listing (covering many other types of records as well) is Sites with Genealogical Source Material (Alan Tupman)
• British Origins (in association with the Society of Genealogists of London) is in the process of incorporating entries from Boyd's Marriage Index in its database, which is available on a pay-per-view basis.
  Boyd's Marriage Index does not itself give complete coverage, but so far index entries for Cornwall, Cumberland, Derbyshire, Devon, Durham, Essex, Gloucestershire, Lancashire, London, Middlesex, Norfolk, Northumberland, Shropshire, Somerset, Suffolk and Yorkshire are included, with most of those for Cambridgeshire, and miscellaneous entries from most English counties; further details are available here
• Boyd's London Burials 1538-1872 (British Origins)
  Sample of over 300,000 London entries, included in a pay-per-view database
• Cheshire Parish Register Project/Parish Register Transcription Project (in progress; Universities of Liverpool and Manchester) [temporarily suspended, December 2002; formerly at http://www.mimas.ac.uk/~mfscprdb]
• Middlesex England Parish Records (Sandy Coleman/Ryan Henrie, UK Genealogy Archives)
  Extensive database compiled from published marriage registers, including entries from the period 1563-1895