National Burial Index

[sigma]

Is the NBI worth buying for family tree research

[boxtops]

You need to wait until someone like dotty is posting, sigma - she'll be able to advise.

[craft1948]

You're ahead of me sigma.....I didn't even know there was such a thing.

[dotty.]

It's been around along time and is an amalgamation of some very very old and some not to old indexes and recordings. Some of the info is duplicated on Ancestry and somecounties are well covered and others are not, Phillimores Atlas and Index to Parish Records is excellent in telling you the content by county,
Your local Family History Society may offer a search for you as their governin body the federation of family history societies publish it on cdrom.
I have never really had a need to use it as there are other sources available that are usually free, but it depends where you need to look for burials, london burials are on ancestry.

[dotty.]

Oh there is one site that will help you identify which burials are on there and that's the GENUKI entry for the town you need. For instance, for Preston:
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LAN/Preston/
just add any town/village to the link to check

[sigma]

Craft, it can be found here
http://www.twrcomputi...nal_Burial_Index.html

[craft1948]

Thanks for that sigma........as I've just forked out for subscription renewal to the genealogist I think I'll give it a miss. Dotty usually helps me with things like that, and in return I'm happy to use my 1911 membership to look up things for her.