I just found out about a cool new website for English research.
It's www.maps.familysearch.org
If you go into the website, you can click on any county and find out all sorts of information for that county. This includes:
1. List all parishes in the county. List all surrounding counties
2. Search the Family History Library Catalog
3. Search the FamilySearch wiki
If you choose a particular parish to look at, you can find:
1. Ecclesiastical parish boundaries
2. Civil parish boundaries
3. Chapelries near by
4. Date that parish registers begin for that parish
5. Names of adjacent parishes
6. Map showing all parishes within a five-mile radius
7. Poor law union the parish belonged to
8. Diocese
9. Hundred (another civil/court division)
10. Probate Court
11. Rural Deanery
12. Type of parish
This site is a gold mine! I searched for East Leake, Nottinghamshire, where the Ristes lived, and discovered that although East Leake is in the ecclesiastical parish of Nottinghamshire, it is in the civil parish of Loughborough. This may explain why I didn't find Levinah's birth record, or any probate records for the Ristes in Nottinghamshire. I still didn't find Levinah's birth in Loughborough on www.FreeBMD.org, but at least I have some new leads to follow!
If you are doing any English research, be sure to check out maps.familysearch.org. It's amazing!!!
Thanks so much!! This has really been helpful to me. I am taking 400 and maps are what I am looking for right now!
ReplyDeleteI just found this too- thanks to Dr. Pratt. It is such a great tool!
ReplyDeleteI love your pictures, did you take them yourself when you were in England?
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ReplyDeleteMy Name is James Horace van den Berg from South Africa. My grandfather was James Horace Riste.He was one of three siblings and was placed in a local orpanage after his father James died in the mines. There are no further records and I only have his birth date (1909-03-30).I'm desperatelly trying to trace my family history.Is there perhaps anyone who could assist