Using other records apart from Parish records advice please

[wilkster647]

Hello everyone,
Thanks for accepting me into this forum. I have traced my family to around the 1750's using the Parish Records at my local archives. I am currently looking for the Wilkinson family in Caythorpe Lincolnshire. I've come onto this site just looking for some help and advice on how to use other records apart from Parish Records as I feel I have exhausted this option!
Many Thanks

[linell]

Hi welcome to the forum, here is a list of what you can look for Pre 1837:-

Prior to 1837, the basic source is the parish registers (the IGI, like BVRI,
is a valuable but very incomplete and sometimes inaccurate index to these
and excludes vital information like marriage witnesses) but they are only a
starting point. Fill in the information from them with other material from
settlement papers, directories, parish rates, parish poor law payments,
bastardy papers, apprenticeship records, court proceedings, muster rolls,
protestation rolls, hearth tax, visitation records... Settlement and removal
examinations can be especially rewarding in providing a "mini-autobiography"
of the person concerned

HTH from Linell.