Leicestershire Parish Records

[TonyV]

Hi everyone

There's  been no fanfare (that I've seen) but lots of Leicestershire records are now on FindMyPast. Yipee!

I've already broken down a brick wall and taken one ancestral line back 3 generations.

Tony

[Annie65115]

Is there a list of which parish records are available?

[BumbleB]

Fantastic - I knew they were coming, and supposedly this month 

[Tuggybear]

That's great news. Thanks for letting us know.

[sunflower]

That's my evening sorted then !

[TonyV]

Is there a list of which parish records are available?

Yes. If you do a search under L in records you can see them all and there is also a Browse link for all Leicestershire records which I've bookmarked for convenience.

Tony

[kelzies]

Woohoo at breaking that brick wall - and for the records now being online! Thanks for the heads up!

[Annie65115]

Is there a list of which parish records are available?

Yes. If you do a search under L in records you can see them all and there is also a Browse link for all Leicestershire records which I've bookmarked for convenience.

Tony

My sub has expired- will I be able to find this info without a sub? I had a quick look but couldn't find anything and I don't want to take out another subscription unnecessarily!

[Guy Etchells]

Hi everyone

There's  been no fanfare (that I've seen) but lots of Leicestershire records are now on FindMyPast. Yipee!

I've already broken down a brick wall and taken one ancestral line back 3 generations.

Tony

Yes I have been downloading Records for the last two days every spare minute I have.Wills, Obligation, Inventories, Marriage licences, banns, as well as the run of the mill baptism, marriages & burials.
Some of which I have on microfiche, some I transcribed in the 60 & 70s some photocopied, some I paid to be scanned at the record office and even a few which I have not seen before.

One that really made my evening today, was a transcription of the nuncupative will of Edward Guy of 1676; I have not seen that for over 40 years and now I have a copy in my possesion rather than a transcript my grandfather made at the end of the 19th century.

These newly digitised records not only record my ancestors lives and deaths but also in a way bring to life my grandfather's and indeed my own past research in the Leicestershire Record Office so many years ago.

I must admit to have undergone a range of mixed emotions over the last two days as long forgotton memories are stirred from their sleep.
The records from that one Record Office track my mother's paternal lineage from the 1950s when my grandfather died back to the 1450s and my 11th Great Grandfather Robert Gye.

They have not all been digitised yet, I have a number on microfiche that I have not yet found in the digital records, but that could be due to the condition the originals are in (some of the fiche are almost too dark to read) so you can imagine what the originals must be like today.

Cheers
Guy