Hi , I'm new to this and I wondered where the best place is to start next for researching my ancestors? Would it be parish records?
Thank you
If you have only been using ivil register for your research then I would suggest you have missed a tremendious amout of material that could provide important information to put flesh on the bare bones civil registers supply.
Apart from missing the additional informatiob you have also missed data sets that you can use for decades before the start of civil registration.
For example in no specific order - Wills, administrations, inventories, school records, employment records,tax records, naval & military records, land records etc., etc.
I would also suggest you use the parish registers hand in hand with the civil register, burial register may confirm family groups, marriage records, it is common to find marriage registers online free of charge rather than paying for a certificate, baptism records also overlap civil register and may be used and even include birth information.
Always try to use as many records as possible to improve the quality of the information you hold.
Cheers
Guy
