England and Wales Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers - ancestry

[kiterunner]

Only just spotted this, and I'm off to bed in a minute!

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=2972

There are over 2.5 million records included. Will have a proper look tomorrow.

[Mary from Italy]

Brilliant, thanks.

[Janet]

Oh wow. Trawling through my neighborhood. Thanks very much, Kate.

EDIT: Ahhh, got one! Aunt Hilda was baptized in the Wesleyan-Methodist Chapel at Maiden Lane, Leeds. :)

[ElizabethHerts]

Oh my goodness, it might take me ages to go through this.
Thanks, Kate.

[kiterunner]

They have set it up with the facility for users to correct just about every field, which is good. At the moment I keep getting error messages when I try to add records to my tree but hopefully this will be fixed soon.

The database is taken from the RG4, RG5 and RG8 collections, which are also available on the BMD Registers and The Genealogist websites, but those websites also have other collections which are not included in this one.

[Mary from Italy]

Yes, I noticed that - foreign BMDs in particular don't seem to be included.

[Sue from Southend]

Lots of Huguenot records - with original images! I'm in heaven!

[kiterunner]

If you have found a record listed on BMD Registers and you can't find it on ancestry, check to see whether it is RG4, RG5, RG8 or something else, and if it is RG4,5, or 8, it should be somewhere on ancestry but perhaps mistranscribed.

[maggie_4_7]

Oh I will be in heaven too when I get home!

I bet a lot of my Sayers and Hortons are in there!

[Merry]

OMG!! This will keep me busy!

[BlueSavannah]

Wow, just found a couple more children my great x 4 grandparents had. Now to find what became of them (presumably died :()

[Lindsay]

Well, I've found the burial of my 5x great-aunt in 1831 aged 20, which fits nicely with when she disappears from some legal documents I've found.

It doesn't, however, explain why her gravestone has her dying in 1839 at the age of 28 :confused:

Usually my family don't die at all. It makes a change to have someone who died twice!

[Merry]

It doesn't, however, explain why her gravestone has her dying in 1839 at the age of 28


lol Have you seen the stone, or is that a transcription? Dates are often extremely difficult to read!

[Lindsay]

To be fair, it was a transcription - done by a kind soul who lived locally, as it's at the wrong end of the country for me. However, he did say it was in good condition and easy to read.

One day I'll get up there and see for myself.

[kiterunner]

This database has just been updated, and there are now over 5.7 million records, but I'm pretty sure it has previously been updated a few times since it was new and I just haven't posted on this thread. So I don't know what's new right now, but if you haven't looked for a while, should be worth another look.

[Phoenix]

The database goes up to 1936.

I would have thought that RG4 and RG5 have been around and available so long that updates there would only be corrections. RG8, however, appears to include all sorts of things, including municipal cemeteries, so that may well be continue to be added to.