NATIONAL ARCHIVES UNITED KINGDOM start page
OK I find this particular on-line catalog a bit difficult. The United States National Archives also was and in recent times was reworked to make it a tad bit easier.
So the first search I used was the word GENEALOGY. Here's where we go:
NATIONAL ARCHIVES UNITED KINGDOM WORD SEARCH GENEALOGY RESULTS
Though some of the listings that come up still are not quite what we are looking for, we're getting there. I'm going to excerpt from the listings involving Catholics and why this is important to genealogy research:
Excerpt: 1 WHY USE THIS GUIDE?
Until 1534, England was a Catholic country. Then, after years of upheaval, the 1559 Act of Supremacy made the Protestant Church of England the established church. Following this act there was a significant increase in the number of state records created documenting Catholics’ status and activities, subject as they were to new laws, taxes and a wave of persecution. The primary focus of this guide is on those records, especially from the 16th and 17th centuries, and how to find them at The National Archives. They include:
- records of penalties and punishments
- details of arrests
- letters from private citizens and spies sent to the authorities
- reports on Catholics sent by ecclesiastical and civil authorities
- baptism, marriage and burial registers
By the 18th century Catholics were no longer persecuted, but were still effectively barred from entering the professions, holding civil or military office, or inheriting land. Formal emancipation finally came in 1829 and state records relating to Catholics exists in smaller numbers from this date onwards.
Like all churches, Catholic churches kept their own records, though very few of these, in common with most local or parish church records, have found their way into The National Archives.
*** That's my italics, emphasizing that records for Catholics will still be found by finding the dioceses ...
I ENCOURAGE YOU TO GET INTO THIS CATALOG IF YOU ARE RESEARCHING ROOTS OF YOUR AMERICAN, CANADIAN, AUSTRALIAN, IRISH, WELSH, or SCOTTISH ANCESTORS!
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