Who we are
We are a worldwide group of volunteers who work to provide FREE GENEALOGICAL AND HISTORICAL DATA AND INFORMATION about a parish and its people, to assist family historians.
Data Currently Online:
Web pages: 891
Kent parishes: 287
Newspaper extracts: 1,943
Unique family groups: 2,952
365,590 unique entries in our indexes and transcripts
1,688 outbound record links
A short history of the County of Kent
Kent, a maritime county in South-east England, is bounded on the North, East, South-east and South by significant waterways and seas. Saxon leaders Hengist and Horsa landed at Pegwell Bay in the 5th century.
Tips for researching your Kent ancestors
The first thing to understand about researching Kent ancestry, and any English ancestry, for that matter, is the great disruption that occurred during the 1640s through to 1661. During that period many parish registers and records were lost...
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