UK family history website findmypast.com has announced that the National Burial Index has been added to its extensive online collection.

The index, which contains over 10 million entries, contains data on burials for England and Wales between 1538 and 2005, with each burial containing full name, date, age at death, county, parish and the church or chapel where the burial took place.

 “We are very excited that we have been able to gather together so many local, quality records which pre-date 1837 and present them at findmypast.com”, commented the Commercial Director of findmypast.com, Elaine Collins.

“Now family history enthusiasts will be able to extend their family tree further back from the comfort of their own home - even if they live overseas. Who knows, they might find ancestors who were contemporaries of Henry VIII.”

The index which currently resides at Family History Online, will be transferred to its new home over the next few months, and be available to findmypast.com subscribers.