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Peter Cross: Family History Independent Indexer

We are pleased to be working in partnership with Peter Cross, a family history independent indexer with a particular interest in Leeds, Yorkshire.

As an independent indexer, I started genealogy back in the days before the Internet, working with the original old documents and registers. Following some transcribing for the 1881 Census Project, I was asked by an Australian relative to check on a family grave. Appalled at the condition of some of the registers and the way they were stored, I began indexing to try and preserve the information. I was joined by a fellow genealogist and work-mate who unfortunately died after we had finished a particular index, and I have since continued indexing in his memory.

All the cemeteries of interest are in the Leeds area of Yorkshire.

If asked, and it is convenient, I am willing to do simple look ups for people when visiting the offices where the records are kept.

Contact by email: [email protected]

Gravestones in a churchyard

Available records

Delve into the Leeds cremation records, transcribed by Peter Cross. There are more than 25,000 records of cremations from the 1930s until the late 1960s:

Peter also contributed to our vast collection of burial records for Yorkshire, creating the transcripts for the Old Holbeck Cemetery in Leeds: