Knowledge Base Index
Birth, Marriage and Death Records
Introduction:
- Birth marriage and death records in England & Wales – key dates
- GRO Scotland
Births
- Births - Legitimate/illegitimate
- Missing forenames - males and females
- Births - age adjustments
- Spelling variations
- Finding surnames
- "Unknowns"
- Mc and Mac
- O" names
- Double-barrelled surnames De or Le or St or Van / Van Der or Von names
- Nuns
- Jewish and Eastern European names
- Umlauts
- Titled
- Royalty
Marriages
- Marriage – searching
- Troubleshooting
- Bigamy
- Where in the country?
- In whose name?
- Spelling variations
- Marriage certificates
Deaths
- Searching
- Troubleshooting
- Where in the country?
- Age adjustments
- Spelling variations
Birth, marriage and death certificates
- Certificates – an introduction
- Birth certificates
- Illegitimacy
- Marriage certificates
- Age of marriage
- Death certificates
- Ordering birth, marriage and death certificates
Registration districts for England & Wales
National Burial Index
City of London Burial Index
Civil Service Evidence of Age Records
Great Western Railway Shareholders Index
Royal Naval Division Casualties of The Great War
Census
Census Records – England and Wales
- Census - introduction
- Census - the origins
- The Domesday Book and beyond
- Population problem
- The census as we know it
- Past census returns - years and dates
- 1841 Census
- 1861 Census
- 1871 Census
- 1881 Census
- 1891 Census
Known issues
- 1841 Census - missing pieces
- 1861 missing pages
- 1871 Census - known problems
Searching the Census
- Census - how data was recorded
- What the records contain
- Data included in the 1841 census:
- 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891 and 1901 census – data included:
- Don’t believe everything you read
- Errors in recording census data
- Census age discrepancies
- Name changing
- Occupations
- Nicknames
- Tips for searching the census
- Residential place census search field
- Cross-checking with births, marriages and deaths
- Search by address
- Census trivia
- Census returns for Scotland and Ireland
1911 census
- Learn more about the census
- Get help and advice on the census
Migration
Passenger Lists
- What does BT27 stand for?
- Putting the Passenger Lists online.
- What do Passenger Lists look like?
- What type of voyages are included in the Passenger Lists?
- Who was travelling on the Passenger Lists?
- Passenger Lists - find out more
Passport Applications
- Background
- How to interpret
- How were the original entries recorded?
Overseas and Military Records
Military Records
- Consular, army and other records
- War deaths – World War 1, World War 2 and the Boer War
- Consular and high commission returns
- Army returns and service department registrations
- Regimental registers
- Chaplains" returns
- Civil aviation authority births, deaths and missing persons
- Registry of shipping and seamen
Overseas
- Article 7 marriages
- Births, marriages and deaths – Ionian Islands
- Overseas certificates – what’s included
- Ordering overseas certificates
- Incomplete indices
- Births, marriages deaths at sea
- How to interpret
- Births - how to interpret
- Marriages - how to interpret
- Deaths - how to interpret
- Marine births and deaths
British India Records
History of British Rule in India
- Royal Charter
- The Growth of The British East India Company
- Clive of India and the French East India Company
- The Regulating Act, 1773
- Indian Rebellion
- The Indian Mutiny, 1857
- Consequences of the Rebellion: The British Raj
Bengal Civil Service graduation list 1869
Parish Records
Parish registers
- Parish registers – an introduction
- Identify the parish
- Printed registers
- Marriages
- Burials
- Baptisms
- Parish records - indexes and aids
- Clandestine marriages
- Parish registers – vicars’ notes.
- Dates in registers
- Data and dates at the Society of Genealogists
- Locating registers
- Frank opinions
Wills and Divorces
Death duty registers
- Death duty registers - about
- What are Death Duties?
- Hierarchy and Probate Jurisdiction
- Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury
- Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of York
- Bishops Diocesan and Consistory Courts
- Commissary Courts
- Archdeaconry Court
- Dean and Chapter Courts
- Using the Estate Duty Indexes
- Finding a will or administration between 1812 and 1857
- Finding a will or administration between 1857 and 1903
- Counties and Probate Jurisdictions relevant to Estate Duty Office Index 1796 to 1857
- Wills and probate
- Dates to remember
- Wills and probate - obligations
- In memoranda?
- Understanding a will before 1858
- Understanding a will after 1858
- Wills – the legal jargon
London & West Kent Probate Indexes
- London probate index 1750-1858
- West Kent probate index 1750-1858
Divorce and matrimonial causes
- Divorce and matrimonial causes - about
- How to interpret
- How were the original divorce and matrimonial causes indexes recorded?
- I"ve found a divorce entry, what next?
- Divorce records
Adoption and Directories
Occupations and Directories
- Clergy List 1896
- Dental Surgeons Directory 1925
- Kelly’s Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes 1901
- The Medical Register 1913
- Medical Directory For Ireland 1858
Miscellaneous
- Adoption records
- Searching for adoptions
- Deed poll
- Finding orphanage records - orphans
- Foundling registration
- Dr. Barnardo children/Barnardo’s children – Canada records
- Background information about relatives, environment, schools, housing, maps, etc.
- Poor law and workhouses
- Prison
- Inquests
- Huguenots
- House history
Living Relatives
Tracing Living Relatives
- Tracing Living Relatives – an introduction
- Descending lines on your family tree
- Parish registers
- England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland
- Birth, marriage and death certificates
- Census
- Wills
- Directories and registers
- Other research
- Making an approach
- Are we related?
- Meet up - organising a family reunion
- Planning is the key to a successful family reunion
Useful Websites
Useful Websites
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