The National Burial Index second edition is now released and is available for same day dispatch.

The price of the 4 CD set is only £39.95 including first class post to addresses in the UK, or airmail to anywhere in the world Buy  View Basket

The much expanded second edition, most of which has never published before, indexes about 13.1 million burials in England and Wales from 1538 onwards. It is not a complete index to all burials, but represents an enormous effort by Family History Societies and Groups to make available a large amount of information easily searchable in your own home. The National Burial Index, known as the NBI, is quality British data at an affordable price.

The information provided in the National Burial Index, taken from parish, non-conformist, Roman Catholic and cemetery registers , includes where available

• County of burial
• Parish or cemetery where the event of burial was recorded
• Date of burial
• Forename(s) of the deceased
• Surname of the deceased
• Age
• The society or group or individual that transcribed the record

The NBI does not contain full transcriptions of the burial records - it is simply an abbreviated finding-aid based on records that were sometimes difficult to read. As with the IGI, searchers are therefore discouraged from accepting the details of an entry at face value and should check the original source record.

Also included is mapping software that interacts with the data. The maps display

• Parishes covered by the National Burial Index including a table of Counties, Places/Parishes, Church/Chapel, and date range covered. The columns in the table may be sorted as desired.
• Parishes that match as a result of your last search
• Regions

Using the program supplied on the CDROM, the searcher can interrogate the database by a number of methods: a standard surname and forename synonym 'dictionary', a list of uniquely-occurring surname spelling variants, or by using 'wildcards'. The search can be 'refined' by specifying date ranges or locations.

Originally over 50 Family History Societies or Groups were involved with the project. They have been joined by more societies and groups to enhance the coverage from 5.4 million burials to about 13.1 million records, about 2.4 times the original size -- from 2CDS to 4CDs! Each society and group appoints a co-ordinator who recruits inputters, checkers and correctors. Wherever possible, transcriptions are made from original source records but where this is not feasible other sources, such as microfiche transcriptions or printed registers, are used.

The National Burial Index second edition is £39.95 inclusive Buy  View Basket
For countries outside the EU the price is also £39.95 including airmail delivery Buy  View Basket
(the extra amount for airmail and the amount deducted for VAT cancel themselves out)

All prices include VAT for deliveries to EU countries

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