This pocket book sized book is fantastically useful to explain the mysteries of Parish Registers. A delightful book to read, a vital, must have for beginner and advanced family historians alike. Packed full of interesting snippets of Parish Registers from around the country, the book explains the type of information that can be found, how to read it and what the entries really mean. Parish registers are some of the most frequently used and most important documents in researching family history, this book helps you to get the most out of the entries and ensures you won't miss a thing when researching baptisms, marriages and deaths.

It gives you access to small details that are easy to over look but can add a lot to your research such as, the years in which there were excessive numbers of deaths i.e. Plague years and the terrible Influenza of 1728

It describes the varying spellings of some names to give you a guide of how your name may also have changed, for example

Dyngley, Dinely, Dingley, Dingleye, Dingly, Dinglye, Dinley and so on

It even has a chronological table outlining the history of Parish Registers, how Thomas Cromwell started them, to the times they were regulated, when registers were imperfectly kept and other interesting dates such as

1667 - A law is created insisting everyone was buried in wool, to bolster the wool trade

1735 - The new law forbids keeping records in Latin.

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This product is sold as a CD SECOND or SPARE.

"CD seconds" or "spares" are perfectly good data wise, but have been put aside due to:

• faulty label printing, e.g. off colour or misaligned. A few have been manually labelled or corrected
• over-produced initially, so offered as "spares" to clear

They are all offered at 60% to 90% discount (from the normal price). They will be supplied in clear CD sleeves, rather than the normal CD cases. In many cases they are the last available, i.e. they won't be available, even at full price, when sold out.