YAS Project Commenced

On Wednesday 18th May 2016, Mike Alan and myself attended a meeting at the YAS Family History Section. In response to a request discuss a joint venture to digitise and transcribe their collection of Monumental Inscriptions held in their archives.

We are pleased to announce a very fruitful outcome for both groups. We have already commenced digitising the records in this exciting joint venture. The collection includes:

• Acaster Malbis
• Ackworth St Cuthbert
• Ackworth Burial Book
• Ackworth Friends
• Acomb St Stephen
• Acklam St Mary, Middlesborough
• Addingham Methodist Church
• Allerton Bywater St Mary the Less
• Almondbury All Saints
• Ambler Thorn-Union Croft Cong Chapel
• Arkendale St Bartholemews
• Arksey
• Askrigg St Oswald
• Austonley
• Aysgarth St Andrew
• Armley St Bartholomew’s
• Badsworth, St Mary
• Bainbridge Friends
• Bardsey All Saints
• Barnsley St George
• Barton Le Willows
• Barwick in Elmet
• Batley
• Bedale St Gregory
• Bentham High
• Bentham Lower
• Bingley
• Bingley United Reform
• Birdford St Mary
• Bilbrough
• Birstall Wesleyan Chapel
• Birstall St Peter
• Bishopthorpe St Andrew
• Blackburn, Lancs. St John the Evangelist
• Bradford Dudley Hill, Ebenezer Prim Meth.
• Bradford Holme Lane Cong
• Bradford Undercliffe Cemetery (Part)
• Bradley Both Quaker
• Bramhope Puritan Chapel
• Bramley St Peter
• Bramley Trinity Methodist
• Bramley Zion
• Branton Green, Upper Dunsforth with Branton Green
• Bridgehouse Gate & Dacre with Bewerley Salem
• Bullhouse & Thurlstone Cong
• Burley in Wharfedale Salem Cong
• Burnby
• Burton in Lonsdale All Saints
• Burneston
• Carbonado (Pirie County Washington, USA) Cemetery
• Carperby
• Catterick
• Cawthorne
• Chapel Allerton St Matthew
• Chapel Le Dale St Leonards
• Clayton Bradford
• Cleckheaton Providence Place Cong
• Cleckheaton UMFC
• Coatham
• Coley
• Collingham St Oswald
• Colne Parish Christ Churhc Old Cemetery
• Cottingwith East
• Coverham
• Cowling, Cowling HIll
• Cowling, Holy Trinity
• Cowling, Ickornshaw
• Cowthorpe St Michaels
• Coxwold
• Crambe St Michael
• Crofton All Saints
• Dacre with Bewerley
• Darrington St Luke and All Saints
• Darton, All Saints
• Deighton, MNC see Huddersfield (box 10)
• Denton, St Helen
• Dewsbury west town, St Matthew
• Dewsbury
• Drax Long
• Dunnington
• Dunsforth Upper with Branton Green
• East Witton, St Martin
• Edlington Old
• Exelby, Leeming and Newton
• Ellerby, St Hilda
• Farnham, St Oswald
• Ferry Fryston, St Andrew
• Fewston, St Lawrence
• Filey, St Oswald
• Flixton
• Folkton and Flixton, St John the Evangelist
• Follifoot, St Joseph and St James
• Fort Langley, British Columbia, Canada)
• Friends, Barton Le Willows
• Friends, Cottingwith East
• Friends, Dacre
• Friends, Hampsthwaite
• Friends, Hardcastle Garth & Dacre
• Friends, Killinghall, Lund Lane
• Friends, Long Drax, Summercroft
• Friends, Osmotherley
• Friends, Ouseburn, Shakelfield House
• Friends, Scotton
• Friends, Selby
• Friends, Sherburn in Elmet
• Friends, Tadcaster
• Friends, Thirsk
• Friends, Thornton Le Clay
• Frodingham North, St Elgin
• Fulford, St Oswald
• Fylingdales, St Stephens
• Fylingdales, St Stephens
• Fylingthorpe
• Gayle
• Givendale Great, St Ethelburga
• Garforth, St Mary the Virgin
• Garforth, St Mary the Virgin
• Gawber
• Golcar
• Golcar, St John the Evangelist
• Gomersal
• Gomersal Fusden Wood Burial Ground
• Gomersal Grove
• Greenhow, St Mary
• Greenhow Hill, Coldstones burial ground
• Grinton, St Andrew
• Guiseley
• Guiseley Otley Old Road
• Gunnerside Methodist
• Hackness, St Peter
• Halifax, Pellon Lane
• Halifax
• Halton Gill, St John the Baptist
• Hampsthwaite
• Hardcastle Garth & Dacre with Bewerley
• Harden p Bingley Ryecroft
• Hardraw
• Harewood, All Saints
• Harewood, Wetherby Road Cemetery
• Harrogate, Christchurch
• Harrogate, St Luke
• Harwood Dale
• Harfield St Lawrence
• Hatfield
• Hauxwell, St Oswald
• Hawes, St Margaret
• Hawes
• Haworth, St Michael and All Angels
• Haworth, St Michael and All Angels
• Hazelwood & Stutton with Hazelwood RC
• Healaugh, St Helen and St John the Baptist
• Hebden Bridge, Birchcliffe burial Ground
• Heckmondwike Upper, Ind
• Heckmondwike(new of Lower) Westgate
• Hemsworth, St Helen
• Hepworth
• Heslerton West, All Saints
• Hipperholme, Mount Pleasant
• Hipswell, St John the Evangelist
• Holbeck, St Matthew
• Holbeck, Balme Walk burial ground
• Holden Clough, Lancs Cong
• Holmbridge
• Holmfirth & Wooldale, New Town Burial Ground
• Holmfirth & Upperthong, Hudderfield Road
• Honley, Moorbottom burial ground
• Honley, St Mary
• Honley, Greencliffe
• Honley, Woodroyd
• Hopton Upper & Mirfield Cong
• Horbury St Peter and St Leonard
• Horsehouse, St Botolph
• Horsforth, Cragghill Baptist
• Hoyland High, All Saints
• Huddersfield
• Huddersfield
• Hunmanby, All Saints
• Hunslet Woodhouse Hill Cemetery
• Hutton Buscel, St Matthew
• Illingworth, St Mary the Virgin
• Ingleton Fell
• Keighley, The Sepulchre Burial Ground
• Keighley.
• Keld
• Kettlewell
• Kexby, St Paul
• Kildwick, St Andrew
• Killinghall
• KImberworth, St Thomas
• Kippax, St Mary
• Kipping
• Kirby Hill, All Saint
• Kirby Hill, St Peter and St Felix
• Kirby Underdale, All Saints
• Kirby Wiske, St John the Baptist
• Kirkburton: Austonley, Hinchclifffe Mill
• Kirkburton: Hepworth, Jackson Bridge
• Kirkburton: Holmbridge, St David
• Kirkburton: Holmfirth, Holy Trinity
• Kirkburton: Holmfirth & Upperthong, Huddersfield Road
• Kirkburton: All Hallows
• Kirkburton: Dogley Lane Ind
• Kirkburton: New Mill, Christ Church
• Kirkburton: Shelley
• Kirkburton: Thurstonland, Episcopal
• Kirkburton: Upperthong Lane
• Kirkburton: Wooldale, Lydgate
• Kirkburton Dogley Cong
• Kirkby Malzeard
• Kirkby Moorside
• Kirkby Overblow
• Kirkleatham
• Knaresborough
• Knaresborough St John
• Knottingley: Cemetery
• Knottingley: St Botolph
• Knottingley: Cong
• Knottingley: Ropewalk
• Knottingley: Ferry Fryston St Andrew
• Knottingley: Brotherton St Edward the Confessor
• Langthorne, Mary Magdelene
• Laycock & Keighley Meth Graveyard
• Leeds Holy Trinity
• Leeds Quarry Hill, St Mary
• Leeds, St Peter
• Leeds, St Peter
• Leeds Camp Lane Court Burial Ground
• Leeds Brunswick Meth Chapel
• Leeds Woodhouse Cemetery (St GEorges Field_
• Leemin & Exelby, Leeming & Newton Horkinstone Cemetery
• Lepton St John
• Lightcliffe, Zion
• Liversedge Hare Park Lane Sepulchre
• Low Row United Reform Church Swaledale
• Leeds Quaker Burial Ground
• Leeds Brunswick Meth Chapel
• Lockwood Rehoboth Baptist
• Abandoned Burial Ground
• Marrik Priory
• Marske by the Sea St Germain
• Marske by the Sea St Edmund
• Masborough
• Meanwood, Holy Trinity
• Melbecks, Low Row
• Melbecks, Low Row
• Melbecks, Low Row
• Menston, Highroyds Hospital
• Middlesmoor, St CHad
• Mirfield, Zion
• Mirfield
• Mirfield, Knowl
• Morley, Queen Street
• Muker, St Mary
• Muker, St Mary
• Mytholmroyd
• Nansana Cemetery Australia
• New Mill
• Newton Kyme, St Andrew
• Nidd, St Margaret ad St Paul
• Nun Monkton
• Old Edlington, St Peter
• Osmotherley
• Ossett, Spa Street
• Otley Bridge, Bridge Street
• Ouseburn
• Pickhill, All Saints
• Pontefract, All Saints
• Pontefract Cong
• Pontefract, Southgate
• Pontefract, Evangelical Churchyard
• Poppleton Nether, St Everilda
• Popleton Upper, All Saints
• Richmond Cemetery
• Rawdon Cragg Royd
• Rawdon St Peter
• Redcar St Peter
• Reeth
• Richmond St Mary
• Ripley All Saints
• Ripon
• Ripon, All Hallowgate
• Rotherham Masborough, Clough Road
• Rotherham
• Roughlee Lancs.
• Sand Hutton, St Leonard
• Saddleworth
• Saxton, All Saints
• Scholes & Cleckheaton
• Scotton, St Thomas the Apostle
• Scotton
• Selby
• Settle
• Shadwell, St Paul
• Shelf Cong
• Shelf, Carr House Lane, Bethel Sunday School
• SHELF, Wadehouse
• Shelf, Carr House Road, Witchfield
• Shelley Ind
• Sherburn un Elmet
• Shipton b Benningborough
• Slkstone
• Skipton, Christ Church
• Skipton, Raikes Road
• Slaithwaite, St James
• Snaith St Lawrence
• Spoffort, All Saints
• Stainburn, St Marys
• Staincliff & Batley Cemetery
• Staincross
• Stanningley, Sunfield
• Stonebeck UP
• Sutton with Hazelwood RC
• Swillington, St Mary
• Tadcaster
• Tadcaster, St Joseph
• Thirsk, St Mary
• Thirsk
• Thisk Methodist
• Thorner, St Peter plus Extension
• Thornhill, St Michael and All Angels
• Thornton & Bradford Kipping Chapel
• Thornton & Bradford Kipping Chapel Sunday School
• Thornton Le Dale All Saints
• Thornton in Lonsdale, St Oswald
• Thornton Le Clay
• Thruscross Chapel & Fewston 7 Darley
• Thurlstone
• Thurstoland Episcopal
• Todmorden Lne Holme
• Todmorden, Mount Oliver
• Todmorden, St Mary
• Todmorden Cross Stone, St Paul
• Todmorden, Cong
• Ugthorpe, St Anne
• Upleatham, St Andrew
• Upperthong Lane
• Upperthong
• Wakefield, West Parade
• West Heslerton
• Weston, All Saints
• Wetherby, St James
• Wetherby, Bank Street
• Whitkirk, St Mary
• Whixley, Ascension
• Wighill, All Saints
• Wilton, St George
• Wooldale
• Wooldale
• Wooldale, Lydgate
• Woodkirk
• Wortley, St John the Evangelist
• Wortley, Bethel
• Wyke, St Mary
• Yeadon
• Yedingham St John the Baptist
• York, All Saints, Pavement
• York, Holy Trinity, Kings Court
• York, Holy Trinity, Micklegate
• York St Clement
• York St Crux
• York St Cuthbert
• York, St Denys
• York, St George
• York, St Helen Stongate
• York St John the Evangelist
• York, St Lawrence
• York, St Mary Walmgate
• York, St Martin Coney Street
• York St Mary, Bishophill Junior
• York St Mary, Bishophill Senior
• York, St Maurice
• York St Michael Spurriergate
• York St Olave
• York St Saviour
• York, Bishophill
• York, Heslington Road, Retreat
• York Bar, Convent RC
• York, Cholera burial ground
• York, Cemetery

See the YAS Blog written by their President Gill Cookson for further details. As usual we will be looking for volunteers, who may have an interest in one of the listed places, to assist.

This is a fascinating project and I proud to be on the team.