Parish register

How it is used

Recorded ceremonies are not always identical in date to births or deaths; inspect the entry type.

Example sentences

1. The parish register places the baptism two weeks after the recorded birth.

   A baptism date should not automatically become a birth date.

2. Missing pages in the parish register interrupted the family reconstruction.

   Document survival affects genealogical and population research.

Common collocations

• consult a parish register
• parish register entries

Related terms

• censusAn official count of a population carried out by a state, usually recording details such as age, sex, household, occupation or property.
• primary sourceEvidence created at the time being studied or by people who witnessed it, such as letters, diaries, official records, photographs or objects.

More terms: Sources and Archives

• secondary source
• archive
• manuscript
• bias
• chronicle
• source criticism
• oral history
• inscription
• provenance
• archivist
• palaeography
• diplomatics