The New Church of England (Anglican) Genealogy Website

The following is an excerpt from a news release from the new Church of England (Anglican) website. Having realized the need by genealogists for information about records, the Anglican Church has created a new website, with which to guide researchers in the right direction. Although the site has no indexes or digitized records itself, it does give instruction as to where to find the data.

“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 move reflects the huge popularity of research into family history: when the 1901 Census was placed online in 2002 it soon became one of the most visited sites on the web, and more than 829,000 people have visited The National Archive’s Family Records Centres in London and Kew in the last three years. 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.”

See: www.cofe.anglican.org/about/librariesandarchives/familyhistory/index.html

About Leland Meitzler

Leland K. Meitzler founded Heritage Quest in 1985, and has worked as Managing Editor of both Heritage Quest Magazine and The Genealogical Helper. He currently operates Family Roots Publishing Company (www.FamilyRootsPublishing.com), writes daily at GenealogyBlog.com, writes the weekly Genealogy Newsline, conducts the annual Salt Lake Christmas Tour to the Family History Library, and speaks nationally, having given over 2000 lectures since 1983.

One Reply to “The New Church of England (Anglican) Genealogy Website”

  1. I am searching for British ancestors who moved to British Guiana in the 1700s or 1800s. I have some bits of information, hopefully you would have additional information I can research.

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