FamilySearch is pleased to announce a new online guide to tracing ancestors in the ceremonial County of Cornwall England. England's westernmost tip: Land's End (featured to the left), Cornish pasties, tin mining, fishing, and Celtic heritage provide vivid images of Cornwall. The guide has been published in the FamilySearch Research Wiki.
Features include articles on each of Cornwall's 350+ Anglican parishes loaded with descriptions of records available online at major websites Ancestry.co.uk, Cornwall Online Parish Clerks, Cornwall Parish Register Index, FamilyRelatives, FamilySearch.org, FindMyPast.co.uk, FreeReg, TheGenealogist.co.uk, Google Books, and Internet Archive.
Most Cornish parish registers are now available online, if you know where to look for them. Genealogists will find tables describing where to find parish registers online, maps to pinpoint places Cornish ancestors lived, and learn how to find and use major Cornwall archives and libraries, such as the Cornwall Record Office, The National Archives, and the Society of Genealogists Library.
Here's an example of what you'll find on a parish page:
Cornwall Topics
Archives and Libraries · Cemeteries · Census · Church Records · Directories · Emigration and Immigration · Genealogy · Heraldic Visitations · Maps · Parishes ·Poor Law Unions · Probate Records · Societies
Tip
If you're having a difficult time remembering how to get back to your parish's guide, try Google. Google the name of your ancestor's parish + genealogy or parish registers, etc. and you should see FamilySearch's guide appear as one of the top results.
