Hi all I found a recent copy of the Liverpool Echo dated the 4th October 08. Looking through the pages I came upon the Echo Origins -discovering your family History page.



The article's title - The Religious divide can halt search.



The article is quite lengthy, but interesting. But just to give you a flavor the Author (Martin Rigby) discusses the problems of searching church records specifically the parish registers before 1837: These records cover marriages and baptisms in the Church of England, but what if they were Roman Catholics, Non-Conformists, Quakers, Baptist, Methodists and Congregationalists.



Some of the sites are (pay per view) some of you may have already had site of them, however, here is the list



www.bmdregisters.co.uk/

www.a2a.org.uk/

www.catholic-history.org.uk/cfhs/

www.familysearch.org

Once on the above site click on the Liverpool &SW Lancs family history Society site.



Other sites:

www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LAN/lprs



There are a couple of other websites mentioned in the article, however I had some difficulties accessing them.

But you may want to try them yourselves.



www.quaker.org.uk

http://archive.liverpool.gov.uk/

www.liverpool-genealogy.org.uk/home.htm



I hope the above sites will be of use to you all?



Billy