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Buckinghamshire Burials (inc. NBI)

• Transcription and conventions used
• Coverage
• Checking
• Grouping
• Abbreviations and codes
• Contact details
• How to buy
• Copyright

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Transcription and conventions used

This page describes Buckinghamshire Burial data from both transcripts and the more limited information in the National Burial Index format. The extended information includes 90,671 records from 38 parishes between 1509 and 1907, while the National Burial Index information remains for 67,291 records from 143 parishes between 1813 and 1851.

The National Burial Index information includes the following fields – there may be more information in the original record:-

• Forenames.
• Surname (in CAPITALS).
• Date (separate fields for day, month and year)
• Age at death (inf indicates an infant, generally under one year of age).
• Place – sometimes called the 'parish'.
• Description – usually the dedication of the church – but it may be the address of a non-conformist register or a cemetery.
• Denomination – the denomination when the records were registered – not always a valid assumption.
• County – Chapman code relating to place.

The transcript information includes the text of the original entry.

Note: where there is parish such as 'Anytown St Martin' (where the St Martin appears to be part of the placename) we also enter the Description (dedication) as 'St Martin'.

Coverage

The following places or parishes are included in this database. Note that there may be more than one church, chapel or burial ground in each place.

The first table lists those parishes with extended information while the second table lists those parishes with only index information (as in the National Burial Index).

Checking

All the transcript entries are fully checked, but some of the Index entries have not been checked.

Grouping

There are no record groups in this database.

Abbreviations and Codes

The Chapman County codes have been used. The code for Buckinghamshire is 'BKM' and that for Oxfordshire is 'OXF'.

Contact details

For more information about the Buckinghamshire Family History Society please see the web site www.bucksfhs.org.uk

How to buy

The second edition of the National Burial Index with 13.2 million burials and a flexible search program is available in a package of four CD-ROMS from many family history societies and GENfair, the online bookshop of the Federation of Family History Societies (Publications) Ltd.

The Buckinghamshire FHS can provide many parish registers in fiche form.

Copyright and disclaimer

© Trustees of the Buckinghamshire Family History Society who are also the makers of the database and hold the Database Rights.

While every care has been taken in the preparation of the index users are advised to view the originals of the appropriate registers (or facsimiles thereof, e.g. microfilm) and to form their own interpretation. The Buckinghamshire Family History Society accepts no liability for any errors or omissions that remain (although they would welcome notification of alternative interpretations of the registers.)

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