Trace your family fortunes with Church of England’s latest web development The Church of England has launched a new area on its website to assist the thousands of people currently trying to trace the branches of their family tree. The Church’s dedicated web area brings together links to a range of sources for tracing family histories including the Lambeth Palace Library and provides contact points for archives and repositories up and down the land.
“Local clergy are often approached by people seeking access to the church’s registers, but in many instances the records that they are looking for have been moved elsewhere. We hope that the new guidance will enable people to visit a single point for information on how the Church of England can help them research their ancestors’ past lives,” says Declan Kelly, Director of Libraries, Archives and Information Services for the Church of England.
The move reflects the huge popularity of research into family history, after more than 829,000 people visited The National Archive’s Family Records Centres in London and Kew in the last three years. Visit the new pages
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