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This is a golden age for genealogy and there's never been a better time to start tracing your family history. The internet has made billions of records available to search from home, providing access to family historians around the world.

Findmypast.co.uk was the first website to make the complete birth, marriage and death records for England and Wales available online, back in 2003. Since then countless other historical records have been published on the internet.

It is only possible to trace your family's passage through history due to the introduction of civil registration in England and Wales, in 1837. Since that time births, marriages and deaths have been registered centrally, and these indexes are available to search, in full, on findmypast.co.uk.

Until civil registration it was local parishes that kept records of important events. These parish records of baptisms, marriages, and burials are becoming more readily available for genealogists. Findmypast.co.uk, in partnership with the Federation of Family History Societies, is publishing local parish records online, helping genealogists to delve further back in time.

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This guide shows how many credits each type of record costs to view. These are our standard prices and do not reflect promotional discounts made available for limited periods.

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Birth, marriage, death & parish records
Birth, marriage and death records 5 Included
Civil Service Evidence of Age 1752-1948 10 n/a
Divorce indexes 1858-1903 n/a 5
Great Western Railway Shareholders 1835-1932 10 20
Index to death duty registers 1796-1903 n/a 1
Parish baptisms, marriages and burials 5 or 10 20
Probate & Wills 1462-1911 5 or 10 n/a
Wrightington Confirmations and First Communicants 10 n/a
Census, land & surveys
1841-1911 census records 5 5
Billingshurst Land Tax 1780-1832 5 n/a
Boyd's Inhabitants of London & Family Units 1200-1946 n/a 20
Cheshire Electoral Registers 1842-1900 5 Included
Corfe Castle & District 1790 census 10 n/a
Freemen of Ipswich 1320-1996 5 n/a
Nether Hallam, Sheffield 1831 census 5 n/a
UK Electoral Registers 2002-2013 10 n/a
Education & work records
Apprentices of Great Britain 1710-1774 n/a 10
Crew Lists 1861-1913 5 n/a
Glamorgan Schools Admission Registers 1768-1911 10 n/a
Manchester Apprentices 1700-1849 5 20
Manchester Police Index 1812-1941 10 n/a
Manchester School Registers 1866-1924 5 20
Match workers strike, Bow 1888 10 n/a
Merchant Navy Seamen 1835-1941 20 Included
Other apprentice records 10 n/a
Other employment lists 5 5
Teachers' Registration Council Registers 1902-1948 n/a 15
Thames watermen and lightermen 1688-2010 10 n/a
Trinity House Calendars 1780-1854 n/a 10
White Star Line Officers' Books 1868-1934 5 10
Institution & organisation records
Bankrupt directory 1820-1843 10 n/a
Crime, Prisons & Punishment 1770-1934 10 Included
Lincolnshire Settlement Certificates and Examinations 10 n/a
Manchester Naturalisation Society 1896-1909 10 n/a
Manchester Prison Registers 1847-1881 5 20
Prestwich Asylum Admissions 1851-1901 10 n/a
Prison ship (Hulk) registers 1811-1843 10 n/a
Royal Household Staff 1526-1924 10 Included
Salisbury Infirmary Admissions & Discharges 1761-1832 5 n/a
Wiltshire Quarter Session Calendars and Removal Orders 10 n/a
Workhouse records 5 20
Military, armed forces & conflict records
1861 Worldwide Army Index 15 n/a
Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902 records 15 n/a
Army Deserters 1828-1840 10 n/a
Army Roll of Honour 1939-45 10 n/a
British Army Service Records 1760-1915 5 30
Distinguished Conduct Medal Citations 1914-1920 n/a 10
Memorial scroll n/a 10
Military Nurses 1856-1994 10 n/a
Napoleonic War Records 1775-1817 10 n/a
National Roll of the Great War 1914-1918 n/a 5
Other army lists & roll calls 5 n/a
Other WWI records 10 or 15 n/a
Other WWII records 10 n/a
Paddington Rifles 1860-1912 10 n/a
Prisoners of War 1914-1920 10 n/a
Prisoners of War 1939-1945 10 n/a
Royal Air Force Muster Roll 1918 n/a 10
Royal Artillery Military Medals 1916-1993 10 n/a
Royal Fusiliers Collection 1863-1905 10 n/a
Royal Marines Medal Roll 1914-1920 10 Included
Royal Naval Officers Medal Roll 1914-1920 10 Included
Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-1919 10 n/a
Surrey Recruitment Registers 1908-1933 10 n/a
Waterloo Medal Roll 1815 5 n/a
Newspapers, directories & social history
British Newspapers n/a 5
Business Index 1892-1987 5 10
Kelly's Handbook 1901 n/a 5
Pigot's Directory of Herefordshire 1835 5 n/a
UK Companies House Directors 2002-2013 10 n/a
Travel & migration records
Convict departures to New South Wales 1788-1842 5 n/a
India Office records n/a 5
Other migration records n/a 5
Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960 5 5
Register of passport applications 1851-1903 n/a 5
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