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Tracker: Goal 4: Learn about Suffolk church and cemetery records.
Choices
ALearn about Suffolk church records.
- Get an overview of Suffolk church records in this article.
FS—Suffolk Church Records - Learn about Suffolk parish registers and civil registration in this article.
Parish Registers and Civil Registration - Learn about Suffolk Non-Conformist ancestors in this article.
Non-Conformist Ancestors - Explore the
church records link on the GenUKI Suffolk site. - Explore parish records on the FreeReg.org site.
- Use this parish page to explore parish records in Suffolk.
- * Good: Using the articles and videos in this Choice, write down key learnings for church records. Then use the learnings for searches for an ancestor.
- * Proficient: Same as above, for two or more ancestors.
Record Search Practice |
Sarah Thompson was married in Suffolk in 1832. Use information from the FreeReg site above to answer these questions:
- Who did Sarah marry?
- Where and when did the marriage take place?
- Who are the wedding witnesses?
- In the FreeReg search screen, enter "Thompson" in the Surname field and select Suffolk as the county and Debenham as the place; then click Search.
- Click the button for Sarah and Thomas in the search results.
- Sarah married Thomas Field Gooding.
- They were married at the St. Mary Church in Debenham, Suffolk, on May 24, 1832.
- The wedding witnesses are George Gooding and John Jacob.
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BExplore Suffolk cemetery records.
- Search the Find a Grave site for cemetery records.
- Search the BillionGraves site for cemetery records.
- * Good: Using the articles and videos in this Choice, write down key learnings for cemetery records. Then use the learnings for searches for an ancestor.
- * Proficient: Same as above, for two or more ancestors.
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