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The National Burial Index (NBI) for England and Wales assists family historians find burial records and, in doing so,
complements the International Genealogical Index (IGI) which is mainly a finding aid to baptisms and marriages.
The NBI is becoming a national archive, giving worldwide access to sources held by those local repositories and family
history societies and groups participating in the project.
Please note that the NBI for England and Wales does not contain monumental inscription records.
FIRST EDITION
Family history societies chose the parishes and time intervals they transcribed although most started in the period 1813
to 1850+. As might be expected, by no means all parishes and dates were covered. This partial coverage was exacerbated
because not all family history societies were able or willing to join the project at that early stage.
The First Edition of the NBI was launched in Spring 2001 as a set of 2 CDs. It included well over 5.4 million records from
more than 4,400 parish, non-conformist and cemetery burial registers, and was so popular that, initially, demand
outstripped supply.
SECOND EDITION
As an ongoing project, further collections of records were encouraged and continued to be received by the FFHS Data
Manager. Over the ensuing three years sufficient additional material was collated to make publication of the Second
Edition feasible. A substantial number of member societies that had not submitted records for the First Edition later
became actively involved by presenting data they already held, or embarked on this as a new project for their area.
As a result, a further 7.8 million records were able to be added enabling the Second Edition to be released at the end of
August 2004. It is a set of 4 CDs containing more than 13.2 million records (including 5.4 million records from the
First Edition) and covering over 8,000 burial registers, in more counties than the First Edition.
INFORMATION THE NBI PROVIDES
The NBI includes the following information (where available): Forename(s) and surname of the deceased. Date of burial. Age.
Details of the place where the event was recorded. The county where this is located (pre-1832 list of counties). The society,
group or individual who transcribed the record.
A PC with Pentium processor or higher is required, running Windows 95/98/NT/2000/ME or XP. The suggested minimum
specification is 16 MegaBytes RAM, around 50 MegaBytes of free disk space, and a screen resolution of 640 x 480 with 256
or more.
Full instructions on how to install the program, start the viewer and search the data entries are given on the comprehensive
booklet inside the first flap of the CD pack.
List of Counties included:-
| County | 2nd Edition | 1st Edition |
| Bedfordshire | 356,000 | 52,000 |
| Berkshire | 351,000 | 117,000 |
| Brecon | 5,000 | None |
| Buckinghamshire | 83,000 | 80,000 |
| Cambridgeshire | 197,000 | 95,000 |
| Cardiganshire | 108,000 | 11,000 |
| Cheshire | 399,000 | 255,000 |
| Cornwall | 112,000 | None |
| Cumberland | 57,000 | None |
| Derbyshire | 82,000 | 35,000 |
| Dorset | 305,000 | 1,000 |
| Durham | 402,000 | 159,000 |
| Essex | 500,000 | 48,000 |
| Glamorganshire | 363,000 | 249,000 |
| Gloucestershire | 167,000 | 154,000 |
| Hampshire | <1,000 | <1,000 |
| Herefordshire | 67,000 | 42,000 |
| Hertfordshire | 137,000 | 84,000 |
| Huntingdonshire | 192,000 | 76,000 |
| Isle of Man | 7,000 | None |
| Kent | 205,000 | 16,000 |
| Lancashire | 170,000 | 29,000 |
| Leicestershire | 329,000 | <1,000 |
| Lincolnshire | 711,000 | 616,000 |
| London City | 138,000 | None |
| Middlesex | 11,000 | 11,000 |
| Monmouthshire | 7,000 | <1,000 |
| Montgomeryshire | <1,000 | <1,000 |
| Norfolk | 105,000 | 74,000 |
| Northamptonshire | 198,000 | 85,000 |
| Northumberland | 180,000 | 106,000 |
| Nottinghamshire | 281,000 | None |
| Oxfordshire | 213,000 | 213,000 |
| Radnorshire | 11,000 | 5,000 |
| Rutland | 19,000 | None |
| Shropshire | 168,000 | 85,000 |
| Somerset | 768,000 | 2,000 |
| Staffordshire | 799,000 | 18,000 |
| Suffolk | 803,000 | 429,000 |
| Surrey | 370,000 | 120,000 |
| Sussex | 316,000 | None |
| Warwickshire | 507,000 | 460,000 |
| Westmorland | 6,000 | None |
| Wiltshire | 224,000 | 145,000 |
| Worcestershire | 552,000 | 483,000 |
| Yorkshire[City/Ainsty] | 34,000 | 19,000 |
| Yorkshire East Riding | 40,000 | 28,000 |
| Yorkshire North Riding | 380,000 | 306,000 |
| Yorkshire West Riding | 1,689,000 | 708,000 |
| Approximate totals | 13,124,000 | 5,416,000 |
