Searching for my ancestors

Anyone know where I can find ancestor information in the Burnley area? Laid up with a bad back and doing some family history research. Traced em back to Burnley in the early to mid 1800's. Parker is the last name....

[grannyclaret]

That was a very common name round here,,hope you find them,,our doctor was called Parker when i was a child...he practiced just off accrington rd near the mitre

[Mercury]

Have you tried Genes reunited?

[Neal]

I knew a lass called Natalie Parker some years ago (Sure that's her last name). Lived around the Allerton Avenue area of Burnley, she was seeing a lad called Dave.

[cath6176]

i also do alot of family research, check census returns at burnley library, earliest is 1841, and then you will need to start going to lots of graveyards and searching for headstones, speak to burnley crem about searching church records, preston record office also hold alot of records and if you ring and they are not busy they sometimes will search for you goodluck.

[cath6176]

oh forgot to say if you cant get out and about ancestry.co.uk do a free trial and there is a also a website called cemsearch that is a voluntary based website with people recording info from headstones etc.

Hey thanks everyone, I'm in the USA so I won't be able to do this in person, yet! In the meantime I'll keep digging..... Rick

[katharine]

Are you still looking for Parkers in Burnley?

[Magpi 47]

Try the Lancashire Births,Deaths and Marriages site too....and i think there are some Parish records online.
Good luck with your search....it is a very absorbing and addictive pastime.

[RossendaleOnline]

Originally Posted by Mercury

Have you tried Genes reunited?

There's also Friends Reunited and the Ancestry website.

Good luck.

[jean]

I got info on my family from burnley borough council parks@burnley.gov.uk they gave me the family graves etc.