Humphery-Smith, Cecil R.

Cecil R. Humphery-Smith put parish geography at the service of family historians, and these maps come from The Phillimore At...

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Cecil R. Humphery-Smith put parish geography at the service of family historians, and these maps come from The Phillimore Atlas & Index of Parish Registers, the 1984 publication he edited. A British genealogist and heraldist who lived from 1928 to 2021, he founded the Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies in Canterbury in 1961. The atlas joins maps with information about the survival and organisation of parish records, and its English county sheets and regional maps of Wales mark register starting dates and church jurisdictions, helping readers connect a place with the framework behind its older records.

Cecil R. Humphery-Smith put parish geography at the service of family historians, and these maps come from The Phillimore Atlas & Index of Parish Registers, the 1984 publication he edited. A British genealogist and heraldist who lived from 1928 to 2021, he founded the Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies in Canterbury in 1961. The atlas joins maps with information about the survival and organisation of parish records, and its English county sheets and regional maps of Wales mark register starting dates and church jurisdictions, helping readers connect a place with the framework behind its older records.

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