Durham County Record Office Online Shop

I thought I knew about parish registers. I had added records to my family tree intensely since inheriting it from my dad in 2001. Working at the time in IT, I had designed a database to hold our research. This quickly grew to encompass much more than my own ancestors. My curiosity about village life in earlier centuries led me to attempt to add records for an entire parish (1538 to 1900). I was interested to see how interconnected the resident families were, and to gain an insight into household makeup and changes through time.

Looking at the whole register, rather than searching for individuals or families, gave a very different viewpoint, and I was soon struck by a number of unexpected patterns...

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