More than 500,000 Norfolk parish records go online

TheGenealogist has added over half a million new parish records for Norfolk to its Parish Records collection. In addition to containing the uniquely transcribed records of baptisms, marriages and burials with images for over 250 parishes, these records also include some fascinating bastardy bonds, examinations, warrants and orders. With this release family historians will be able to find the details of ancestors baptised, married and buried as well as those that had children born out of wedlock in this East Anglian county.

As well as standard parish record information, the new data will allow the family history researcher to discover many names of parents of illegitimate children, and the images also reveal the names of people standing guarantor for the father.

These fully searchable records are transcribed from the original records and linked to the images from the Norfolk Record Office.

Read TheGenealogist’s article on tracing illegitimate ancestors online here .