Federation Of Family History Societies

Surman Index Just Launched

Charles Surman's extraordinary biographical card index of Congregational ministers includes the names of about 32,000 individuals, and, where known, their dates, details of their education, ministries or other employment, together with the sources used. It covers the period from the mid-seventeenth century to 1972, and though it focuses on England and Wales, it includes Congregational ministers serving abroad provided they trained or served as ministers in Britain. Although intended as an index of Congregational ministers, it also gives details of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Presbyterians.

Further information can be found on the website where the index can now be freely searched online http://surman.english.qmul.ac.uk.

Roger Lewry
FFHS Archives Liaison

27 May 2009