Our Bennett Family History and Parish Locator
This UK Parish Locator program is freeware and will run on Windows 95/98, ME, NT, Windows 2000 & Windows XP. Users tell me that it also works fine with Vista.
The Database is available to users of other operating systems as a CSV file (see Download section below).
The Windows program enables you to locate any one of nearly 15,000 UK parishes. It will produce a list of parishes in any County or a list of parishes within a given radius of any other parish and also allows Import and Export via "csv" files. It is possible to plot the location of parishes to either the screen or the printer. This version also includes a number of corrections to errors found by users.
The parishes listed were those in existence at some during the period from the mid 1500s to about 1837 when civil registration started but see section 2.2 of the Manual for full details.
Please note that this program is only concerned with the location of parishes and does NOT contain any details about people.
The original database used by this program was created by Gerald Lawson and was used as the basis of this version with his kind permission.
This the main screen of the program, taken from a system running windows XP.
This program is written for Windows 95/98/ME and NT/Windows 2000 & Windows XP
It will not run on earlier versions of Windows.
Installation instructions:-
1. Download ParlocNN.exe (where NN is the version number).
2. Run ParlocNN.exe which will run the installation program.
3. After install has finished ParLoc and its uninstall program will have been added to your list of programs and your chosen directory(folder) should contain the following 12 files:-
ParLoc.exe, Parishes.dat, MapList.dat, County.txt,
Manual.htm, UkLocs.txt, UkCoast.txt, IrlLocs.txt,
IrlCoast.txt, ExtraNotes.rtf Uninstall.exe, Uninstall.ini
Note that as you use ParLoc other files will be created in this directory and using all the functions will require 12Mb of disk space.
4. Please take some time to study the Manual.
5. Note that the new default location is C:Program Files/ParLoc if your previous version was located elsewhere you may want to delete it and any shortcuts associated with it.
All the files used by ParLoc are kept in the designated directory.
Warning - The Database included with this release contains all the corrections previously reported to me by users. Any other changes made by users will need to be re-entered. See the Manual.
Click here to see a list of amendments / corrections to the database since the release shown below.
Download ParLoc27-11.exe now (660kb). This will install ParLoc for Windows systems
This release has the number 2.7#11 - May 2007
For Macs and other Non Windows PCs
For users of Mac and other Non PC computers the database used by the above program is available as a CSV file for use in the Spreadsheet or Database program of your choice. After you have UnZipped the file be sure to read the files ReadMe.txt and Manual.htm.
This release has the number 2.7#11 - May 2007
If you need to report a problem with downloading or using this software please include details of your Browser and Operating System including the version numbers. Thank You.
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