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Margaret in Burton
18-11-18, 10:14
Are any Bedfordshire Parish Records online anywhere? I've found some information on Family Search but can't much elsewhere.

kiterunner
18-11-18, 10:31
There are some books of transcriptions available on the Internet Archive, Marg:

https://archive.org/search.php?query=Bedfordshire%2C%20England%20Paris h%20Registers

(By the way, I have no idea how to do that kind of search; I got it from the FamilySearch wiki.)

There is a thread about Bedfordshire PR's from last year:
http://www.genealogistsforum.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=25621&highlight=bedfordshire

Margaret in Burton
18-11-18, 10:35
Thanks Kate

I'll have a browse through

Janet
19-11-18, 02:32
Marg, if you add site:archive.org into your Google search field you might find some interesting hits. For instance
Bedford site:archive.org (https://www.google.com/search?q=Bedfordshire+site:archive.org&newwindow=1&ei=jyvyW87DLoHLjwS5nJg4&start=50&sa=N&ved=0ahUKEwiOx8nJv9_eAhWB5YMKHTkOBgc4KBDw0wMIcw&biw=882&bih=419)
where on the 6th page of hits I find
Regimental Records of the Bedfordshire Militia (https://archive.org/details/regimentalrecor00burggoog/page/n36).
Just one example.
I don't know if you're familiar with archive.org. When you click on a link you're likely to first see a jumble that looks like OCR text, but if you hit "See other formats" at the top right it will show you actual images of the original pages.
The link Kite gave you for the parish records is far more organized, of course, but sometimes I stumble across interesting things this way.

Margaret in Burton
19-11-18, 07:09
Thanks Janet
I’ll have a look at that later