FINDMYPAST.COM Adds More National Burial Index Records

The following announcement was written by FINDMYPAST.COM:

Parish records from Yorkshire online now

Leading UK family history website findmypast.com has today announced that it has added to its online collection of over 10 million National Burial Index records, which go back to 1538.

Working in partnership with the Federation of Family History Societies (FFHS), findmypast.com has published online burial index records from the parish of Selby. These comprise over 10,000 records from Selby cemetery in the West Riding of Yorkshire, as well as over 800 records from Bubwith All Saints in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

These parish records are crucial for any family historian as they predate the start of civil registration in England and Wales in 1837 - a seemingly insurmountable brick wall for many. The index gives the date and place of burial as well as age at death.

The records can be searched as part of an Explorer subscription to the findmypast website, or with pay-per-view units.

More parish records will be added to the website over the coming months.

Comments

[Findmypast subscriber]

A note of caution to Explorer subscribers to Find My Past.com:

The advertised 'unlimited' access to data is not at all honest.
I am a retired, hobby researcher, with a couple of trees which I like to work on about 6 hours per week. I purchased an Explorer subscription to FindMyPast priced at 89 pounds for a year. They (customer service desk at FindMyPast.com) started harassing me about using the site too much: they claimed that 1000 lookups per month (that is, 35 per day) was way above average usage and accused me of overusing the site!! They threatened to charge my Visa for extra fees even though I had purchased an Explorer subscription. When I protested, they apologized, then a month later they started harassing me all over again, even though I had not even accessed the site during that month!!! What a money grab - and these records by all rights should be publicly accessible...after all, they are only lists of dead people.