New Zealand’s Aukland Libraries has posted online five family history presentations, and the quality of the audio and video is excellent. In each presentation, you clearly see the speaker and his/her slides, along with closed captions. This is the next best thing to attending in person.
While most of the presentations are, not surprisingly, about research in New Zealand, the one-hour presentation delivered by Vivienne Parker about The records of the English parish church is especially worth watching by anyone who has ancestors who lived in England.
“The records of the English parish church” was presented by Vivienne Parker, New Zealand Society of Genealogists, on March 4, 2015.
This is the description provided:
The records of English parish churches recount the day-to-day running of the parish, including not only baptisms, marriages and burials but also a wealth of information about our ancestors. Their findings also uncover the roles of the vestry and church wardens, who held the responsibility for raising funds, appointing people to various jobs, maintaining roads and bridges in the parish, the care of the elderly, dealing with miscreants and illegitimacies, as well as ensuring the removal of those who had no right to remain in the parish.
There is a link to download the slides for this presentation, but it was not working at the time I wrote this post.
All of the presentations are available on this Aukland Libraries web page.
Thanks to Ruth Blair for posting the link on Facebook.
