Prioritized List of Online England County Church Records

Introduction

This table contains a prioritized list of websites and resources that cover county church records for the Church of England. This strategy page is to assist researchers in locating the best resource to locate an ancestor and does not contain all resources available. A complete list of all websites for Church of England church records can be found on the England Church Records page.

To use this table:

• The resources are prioritized from left to right, with the left column containing the most complete coverage for the county.
• Percentages in brackets indicate the approximate percentage of the records included in that collection. Many collections will have a table or index showing the specific parishes and years they have records for.
• OPC is an abbreviation for Online Parish Clerks, a group of websites that transcribes parish records and make them freely available online, and FHS is an abbreviation for Family History Society.
• Many of these collections have the baptisms, marriages and burials on separate webpages. Links to the resources from all this table are always to the baptisms.

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County (pre-1974)	Best coverage			Less Coverage	Offline Records
Bedfordshire	FamilySearch (98%)				Bedfordshire Archives ($ or in person)
Berkshire	FamilySearch(70%)	FindMyPast ($)			Berkshire Record Office (in person)
Buckinghamshire	FamilySearch (50%)	FindMyPast ($)			Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies (in person)
Cambridgeshire	Cambridgeshire FHS	FamilySearch(70%)	FindMyPast ($)	Cambridgeshire FHS CDs ($). Can be accessed for free at the FHL in Salt Lake City.
Cheshire	FamilySearch (70%)	FindMyPast ($)	Ancestry.com ($)	Cheshire Parish Register Project
Cornwall	FamilySearch	Cornwall OPC	FreeReg (85%, mostly marriages)	FindMyPast ($)
Cumberland	FamilySearch (80%)
Derbyshire	FindMyPast (85%) ($)	FamilySearch (75%)	Ancestry.com ($)
Devon	FindMyPast ($)	FamilySearch (50%)
Dorset	FamilySearch	Ancestry.com ($)	FindMyPast ($)	TheGenealogist ($)
Durham	FamilySearch	FindMyPast ($)	FreeReg (25%)	Durham Records Online	Durham Record Office (in person)
Essex	FamilySearch	TheGenealogist ($)	FindMyPast ($)	Essex OPC	Essex Record Office ($) or in person.
Gloucestershire	Ancestry.com ($)	FamilySearch	TheGenealogist ($)		Bath and Avon FHS ($) CDs
Hampshire	FamilySearch	TheGenealogist ($)	FindMyPast ($)	Hampshire Record Office marriage index (mostly complete)
Herefordshire	FamilySearch (80%)				HARC (in person)
Hertfordshire	FamilySearch (90%)	FindMyPast ($)
Huntingdonshire	FamilySearch	FindMyPast ($) (burials)			Huntingdonshire Archives (in person)
Kent	FamilySearch	FindMyPast ($)	Ancestry.com ($)	Kent OPC
Lancashire	Ancestry.com ($)*	FamilySearch	Lancashire OPC	FindMyPast (Manchester only) ($)
Leicestershire	FamilySearch (40%)	FindMyPast ($)			Leicestershire and Rutland FHS (70%)
Lincolnshire	FamilySearch (85%)	FreeReg (82%)	FindMyPast ($)
London*	FamilySearch (90%)	Ancestry.com ($)
Middlesex	Ancestry.com (60%) ($)	FindMyPast ($)	FamilySearch
Norfolk	FreeReg (75%)	Ancestry.com ($)	FamilySearch	FindMyPast ($)
Northamptonshire	Ancestry.com ($)	FreeReg (71%)	Northamptonshire FHS		FHL has Northamptonshire CDs
Northumberland	FamilySearch (85%)	FindMyPast ($)	FreeReg (80%)	FamilySearch
Nottinghamshire	FreeReg (90%)	Ancestry.com ($)	FindMyPast ($)	FamilySearch	Nottinghamshire Archives
Oxfordshire	Ancestry.com ($)	FamilySearch (85%)			Oxfordshire FHS
Rutland	FamilySearch (80%)	FindMyPast ($)
Shropshire	FindMyPast ($)	FamilySearch
Somerset	Ancestry.com ($)	FreeReg (85%)	FamilySearch (30%)	FindMyPast ($)
Staffordshire	FamilySearch (85%)	FindMyPast ($)	FreeReg (85%)
Suffolk	FamilySearch (65%)	FindMyPast ($)			Suffolk Record Office (in person)
Surrey	Ancestry.com (70%) ($)	FindMyPast ($)	FamilySearch
Sussex	FamilySearch (65%)	Sussex OPC	TheGenealogist ($)	FindMyPast ($) (burials)
Warwickshire	Ancestry.com ($)*	FamilySearch	FindMyPast ($)	Warwickshire OPC
Westmorland	FamilySearch (70%)				Kendal Archival Center (in person)
Wiltshire	FindMyPast ($)	FamilySearch (50%)	FreeReg (80%)	Ancestry.com ($)
Worcestershire	FamilySearch (75%)	TheGenealogist ($)
Yorkshire	Ancestry.com ($) (West Yorkshire)	FamilySearch (75%)	FindMyPast ($)

• Ancestry also has records for Birmingham and Manchester separate from the records for Warwickshire and Lancashire respectively.

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