UK: British County-Wide Marriage Indexes

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Find out if your county is indexed covering the time period you need!

• 1538-1812
• 1754-1812
• 1813-1837

Historically, English men often married outside their parishes of residence. Marriages generally took place in the bride's place of residence. Because there are over 11,000 Church of England parishes in England alone, it is often difficult to track down these records. To help alleviate this problem, genealogists and family history societies have created county-wide marriage indexes.

Percival Boyd, an avid genealogist in the early twentieth-century, is credited with devising this method to solve English family history conundrums. He made a serious dent in making a nation-wide index for England through what is known as Boyd's Marriage Index. Next, the International Genealogical Index, and it's holding-tank, the British Vital Records Index (CD-ROM), furthered these efforts. While each of these databases are valuable, they are incomplete when parish coverage is analyzed county-by-county, making them inferior to the indexes discussed in this article.

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