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SWFHS has now published 1 million (1,017,000) index records.

This week saw SWFHS records indexers publish their one-millionth free to search and free to use records for people researching their South Warwickshire relatives along with records from other neighbouring parishes in North Warwickshire and the West Midlands. In doing so we also added our 500,000th Baptism record.

The indexing team is made up of Carole Eales, Wendy Boland, Bob Gibson, Sheila Steane and Ian Pearson.

In the last few days, we have added 62,000 C of E Baptism, 25,500 C of E Burial and 19,000 C of E Marriage records to our databases which, as previously reported, are now much easier to search.

If you have searched our databases before you should now try searching the Master Index records which allow you to drill down to single people, dates or locations.

We have also added newly upgraded search facilities to the newly published single parish databases and will be going back through the over 670 single tables to upgrade the search facilities on the older ones.

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Major Improvements Made to Master Index Search Function.

Users of the master C of E indices (Non-Conform coming this weekend) can now drill down through the records to, hopefully, find the individual(s) you are looking by surname, forename, parish and year as opposed to just a blanket surname search. Using the boxes below you can start with a wide search on a surname and then filter those by adding a forename, then further add a year or a parish or, if you know what you are looking for, narrow the search by using more of the search boxes from the start.

For instance to search for a particular Groom:

• Enter Smith in the surname box, wait for the results (almost instant) and 2493 records are returned.
• Then, without clearing the surname, enter a first name, say John, and 418 records are returned
• Then enter a parish, say Bidford, 10 records are returned

Or if you know the bride last name enter both last names and then drill down the results from there. Happy searching

Don't forget if you identify an entry which you believe relevant to your research but do not have access to the original document please contact us, and we will be happy to provide you with a copy of the register and any other details we may have.

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Improvements to Non-Conform Master Index Search Function and New NC Records Added.

Users of the master Non-Conformist records database can now drill down through the records to, hopefully, find the individual(s) you are looking by surname, forename, parish and year as opposed to just a blanket surname search. Using the boxes below you can start with a wide search on a surname and then filter those by adding a forename, then further add a year or a parish or, if you know what you are looking for, narrow the search by using more of the search boxes from the start.

For instance to search for a particular Groom:

• Enter Smith in the surname box, wait for the results (almost instant) and 2493 records are returned.
• Then, without clearing the surname, enter a first name, say John, and 418 records are returned
• Then enter a parish, say Bidford, 10 records are returned

Or if you know the bride last name enter both last names and then drill down the results from there.

In addition we added over 2,000 new NC records to the databases. Happy searching

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