parish register
Congregation's vital records
A parish register is an official record book maintained by a church, documenting baptisms, marriages, and burials within the parish.
These records, kept continuously in many places since the 16th century, are primary sources for genealogical research: She traced her ancestors through parish registers back to 1650.
Stored historical documents
- annalsYear-by-year historical account
- chroniclesSequential historical accounts
- manuscriptOriginal text before publication
- parchmentTreated hide for manuscripts
codex · folio · antiquarian · microfilm · digitization · preservation · restoration · Tudor
Family line of descent
- lineageDescent from progenitors
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- pedigreeRecord of descent
- descendantsThose who come after
kinship · family tree · bloodline · roots · genealogist · forebears · progenitors · vital records
Of the initiation rite
- rectorParish clergy chief
- vicarClergy substitute for bishop
- vestryChurch robing chamber
- clergyOrdained religious officials collectively
diocese · canon · sacrament · chapel · pastor · congregation · churchwarden · curate
Acts of being born
- marriagesLegal spousal unions
- deathsPermanent cessations of life
- baptismsReligious initiation rites
- burialsPlacing dead underground
christenings · banns · entries · documentation · enrollments · index · notations · certificates
Inhabitants of small settlements
- townsfolkResidents of a village
- residentsPeople living somewhere
- inhabitantsPermanent occupants of place
- localsArea's permanent inhabitants
congregation · settlement · hamlet · township · rural · agrarian · landed gentry · yeoman
archives
Stored historical documents
- annalsYear-by-year historical account
- chroniclesSequential historical accounts
- manuscriptOriginal text before publication
parchment · codex · folio · antiquarian · microfilm · digitization · preservation · restoration · Tudor · Victorian
ancestry
Family line of descent
descendants · kinship · family tree · bloodline · roots · genealogist · forebears · progenitors · vital records · family history
baptismal
Of the initiation rite
clergy · diocese · canon · sacrament · chapel · pastor · congregation · churchwarden · curate · parson
births
Acts of being born
burials · christenings · banns · entries · documentation · enrollments · index · notations · certificates · witnesses
villagers
Inhabitants of small settlements
- townsfolkResidents of a village
- residentsPeople living somewhere
- inhabitantsPermanent occupants of place
locals · congregation · settlement · hamlet · township · rural · agrarian · landed gentry · yeoman · cottager
parish registervital records
Official life event documentation
state records · county records · town records · public records office · national archives
parish registerheretic
Challenger of official doctrine
dissenter · unbeliever · heathen · laity
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