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West Riding of Yorkshire Update – 2 new parishes – 28th December 2011

By Toby Joiner-Brown | Filed in Joiner Marriage Index Updates, Marriage Records, West Riding of Yorkshire Marriage Records

Somewhat belatedly here are the details of the updates to the West Riding of Yorkshire in the Joiner Marriage Index. I can only apologise for not writing this brief article earlier but work has been a touch busy of late. The update was fully implemented on the 28th December and I hope that it has already proved useful for some of our customers. Thank you for your patience.

We added 11,749 marriage records to the Joiner Marriage Index for the West Riding of Yorkshire, which was a mixture of updates to five of the parishes and the addition of two new parishes, namely East Ardsley and Woodkirk. The details of the updates are:

Rothwell, the Church c1960. © Copyright The Francis Frith Collection 2012New parishes:

East Ardsley with 126 marriage records between 1813 and 1837
Woodkirk with 260 marriage records between 1813 and 1837

Existing parishes:

Almondbury with 4806 marriage records between 1813 and 1837
Kirkburton with 2515 marriage records between 1813 and 1837
Rothwell with 3077 marriage records between 1813 and 1837
Sandal Magna with 310 marriage records between 1832 and 1837
Tickhill with 655 marriage records between 1772 and 1837

This takes the total to 253,903 marriage records in 146 parishes in the West Riding of Yorkshire and 2,227,589 marriage records in 3,186 parishes in 26 counties for the whole of the online part of the Joiner Marriage Index. Also belatedly we would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year for 2012, and hope that we continue to be the leading online marriage index in our 6th year for the website!

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West Riding of Yorkshire Update – 8 New Parishes – 29th October 2011

By Toby Joiner-Brown | Filed in Joiner Marriage Index Updates, Marriage Records, West Riding of Yorkshire Marriage Records

We have just added 7,164 marriage records to the Joiner Marriage Index for the West Riding of Yorkshire including marriage records in 8 new parishes for the period 1813 – 1837 and updates to 7 other parishes. The new parishes are:

South Kirkby, All Saints Church c1965Badsworth with 121 marriage records.
Featherstone with 186 marriage records.
South Kirkby with 219 marriage records.
Cawthorne with 242 marriage records.
Silkstone with 1928 marriage records.
Penistone with 973 marriage records.
Normanton with 96 marriage records.
Warmfield with 129 marriage records.

This takes the total to 242,154 marriage records in 144 parishes in the West Riding of Yorkshire and 2,215,840 marriage records in 3,184 parishes in 26 counties in the online part of the Joiner Marriage Index.

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Welcome to Paul’s Genealogy Blogspot – My background in Genealogy

By Paul Joiner | Filed in Paul's Genealogy Blogspot

Since I have just retired Toby thought it might be a good thing if I started to share some of my thoughts with you on this blog. The idea is that I should contribute something of note to genealogists on a semi-regular basis.  I hope it may prove slightly interesting to you.  Any feedback, or debate, would be greatly appreciated.

I started the database way back in the mid 1970s when I was starting out on my genealogical journey and got a bit stuck with my family while living some 200 miles from their main area of the Hertfordshire-Buckinghamshire borders.  I helped to start the Cleveland Family History Society and thought that I might create something of an index similar to Boyd for the southern part of County Durham which seemed particularly poorly served by him.

I had access to the original parish registers during my lunch hour every week in Durham CRO whilst travelling around the north east in my line of business.  The easiest start seemed to be to fill the gaps between the end of most of Boyd’s coverage in 1812 and the start of General Registration in 1837.  I was transcribing the registers into reporters’ notebooks and then transferring and indexing the entries onto scrap computer punch cards. The first manifestation of the Joiner Marriage Index was as three handwritten indexes for County Durham 1813-1837.  I believe those indexes are still available at both Durham County Record Office and Cleveland Archives.

At about the same time Bill Rounce and Geoff Nicholson were also starting similar projects on their own separate initiatives.  We informally agreed to split up County Durham into our own areas of interest to avoid duplication of effort. Geoff took the far north west around Muggleswick and Bill took the north east of the county.  I worked away on the south since I live down that way. I was also involved in typing up a copy of the registers in the Middleton in Teesdale area for Major Kenyon Fuller and the Society of Genealogists (SoG).  As my index developed, and computers came into more general use, it migrated onto electronic media and I amalgamated Bill and Geoff’s work into an overall index for County Durham.

Having received a good response from record offices I started to extend the index back to 1800, then 1754 and finally any dates I could get hold of – I am an inveterate counter and collector!  Once Durham was nearing completion (!) I decided to start with the old North Riding of Yorkshire, given the proximity of NYCRO at Northallerton.  From there the database took on a life of its own.  The availability of printed parish registers in electronic format was a great assistance in the growth of the number of parishes.  Using these sources Leicestershire, Derbyshire and Lincolnshire appeared relatively quickly.

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West Riding of Yorkshire Update – 11 New Parishes – 3rd September 2011

By Toby Joiner-Brown | Filed in Joiner Marriage Index Updates, Marriage Records, West Riding of Yorkshire Marriage Records

Photo of Ackworth, All Saints ChurchWe have just added the marriage records from 11 new parishes to the Joiner Marriage Index for the West Riding of Yorkshire for the period 1813 to 1837. Some corrections and additions have also been applied to the marriage records for 14 of the other parishes to also fill out the period 1813 to 1837. There will be more parishes to follow but for now the parishes to which we have added marriage records are:

Ackworth with 189 marriage records.
Bardsey with 46 marriage records.
Brotherton with 339 marriage records.
Castleford with 167 marriage records.
Ferry Fryston with 103 marriage records.
Kellington with 256 marriage records.
Kirk Smeaton with 40 marriage records.
Kirkby Overblow with 255 marriage records.
Thorner with 125 marriage records.
Whitkirk with 425 marriage records.
Womersley with 145 marriage records.

This takes the total to 234,990 marriage records in 136 parishes in the West Riding of Yorkshire and 2,208,676 marriage records in 3,176 parishes in 26 counties in the online part of the Joiner Marriage Index.

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Norfolk Update – 48 New Parishes – 12th July 2011

By Toby Joiner-Brown | Filed in Joiner Marriage Index Updates, Marriage Records, Norfolk Marriage Records

We have just added 5,256 new marriage records to the Joiner Marriage Index for Norfolk which includes 48 new parishes and some updated data for 15 of our other parishes. The new parishes just added are:

Photo of Taverham, Parish ChurchTasburgh with 85 marriage records between 1813 and 1837
Taverham with 34 marriage records between 1813 and 1837
Thelveton with 35 marriage records between 1813 and 1837
Themelthorpe with 16 marriage records between 1813 and 1837
Thornham with 119 marriage records between 1813 and 1837
Thorpe-Abbots with 44 marriage records between 1813 and 1837
Thorpe/Norwich with 228 marriage records between 1813 and 1837
Threxton with 5 marriage records between 1813 and 1837
Thurgarton with 46 marriage records between 1813 and 1837
Thurning with 11 marriage records between 1813 and 1837
Thurton with 42 marriage records between 1813 and 1837
Tibenham with 130 marriage records between 1813 and 1837
Tittleshall with 111 marriage records between 1813 and 1837
Tivetshall S. Mgt with 63 marriage records between 1813 and 1837
Tivetshall S. My with 55 marriage records between 1813 and 1837
Trimingham with 35 marriage records between 1813 and 1837
Trowse with 127 marriage records between 1813 and 1837
Tunstall with 7 marriage records between 1813 and 1837
Tuttington with 35 marriage records between 1813 and 1837
Twyford with 13 marriage records between 1813 and 1837
Warham AS with 65 marriage records between 1813 and 1837
Warham S. My with 17 marriage records between 1813 and 1837
Watton with 179 marriage records between 1813 and 1837
Waxham with 12 marriage records between 1813 and 1837
Weasenham S. Pet with 50 marriage records between 1813 and 1837
Wellingham with 25 marriage records between 1813 and 1837
Wells with 595 marriage records between 1813 and 1837
Wendling with 59 marriage records between 1813 and 1837
West Bradenham with 54 marriage records between 1813 and 1837
West Dereham with 105 marriage records between 1813 and 1837
West Harling with 17 marriage records between 1813 and 1837
West Lexham with 29 marriage records between 1813 and 1837
West Winch with 66 marriage records between 1813 and 1837
Weston-Longville with 77 marriage records between 1813 and 1837
Photo of Wymondham, the AbbeyWeybourne with 64 marriage records between 1813 and 1837
Whitwell with 80 marriage records between 1813 and 1837
Wickhampton with 23 marriage records between 1813 and 1837
Wicklewood with 131 marriage records between 1813 and 1837
Wighton with 95 marriage records between 1813 and 1837
Wilby with 27 marriage records between 1813 and 1837
Wiveton with 51 marriage records between 1813 and 1837
Wood-Dalling with 105 marriage records between 1813 and 1837
Wood-Norton with 54 marriage records between 1813 and 1837
Woodrising with 17 marriage records between 1813 and 1837
Wretton with 69 marriage records between 1813 and 1837
Yaxham with 85 marriage records between 1813 and 1837
Yelverton with 58 marriage records between 1813 and 1837
Wymondham with 1010 marriage records between 1813 and 1837

This now completes the Joiner Marriage Index coverage for the years 1813 to 1837 in Norfolk apart from the parishes within Norwich itself which will follow in the next few weeks. The Joiner Marriage Index now truly is the best and only searchable index for marriage records in Norfolk, no other online resource comes close to offering the data that we do.

This addition takes the total for Norfolk to 117,886 marriage records in 578 parishes between 1538 and 1837 and the total for the Joiner Marriage Index to 2,201,203 marriage records in 3,165 parishes in 26 counties.

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