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Baptism Records and Tracing Your Ancestors
Births had to be registered from 1837 onwards. However, in most cases you'll be able and desire to go back beyond that date, but you'll need to start...
Birth Certificates and Genealogy
We're born, we live and then we die. That might sound particularly gloomy, but along the way we leave traces of ourselves, and those are the pieces that are...
Family History: What to Ask Your Older Relations
Older relatives can be an excellent source of family history information. Not only will they remember their own parents and grandparents, they...
Finding 17th and 18th Century Records
We think of the 17th and 18th centuries as being so much closer to our own times in sensibilities than, say, the Tudor period. In terms of...
Genealogy And Immigrant Ancestors
In genealogy terms, most of us are the descendants of immigrants, even if we don't think of ourselves that way. Some just arrived more recently than others. If you could...
Genealogy Information From The Cemetery
Graveyards are very important to genealogy. The first public graveyards didn't open until 1827, and prior to this date they were either church...
Hidden Clues in Family History
Family histories can be full of hidden clues. The trick is understanding what they mean and unravelling the mystery behind them. That’s not always easy, however,...
How To Find And Use The Main Genealogy Sources
When you begin researching your family tree one of the first things you need to know is where to look for genealogy information. These days there are...
How To Use Census Records In Genealogy
There have been censuses in Britain for two centuries, since the first one was held - after much acrimonious debate about privacy - in 1801....
Searching Education Records
It wasn't until 1880 that local authorities had to ensure that children in their area were suitably educated, although a number had been doing that since 1870. But it...
Sharing Your Family Tree
Doing all the research and assembling your family tree is both a pleasure and a task. You’ll run into countless problems and be diverted into many alleys and...
The Importance of Heraldry
Heraldry, or armoury, to give it its proper name, is one of the oldest European ways of differentiating families. Its origins lie in the Middle Ages, when symbols...
The Importance of Newspapers as a Source
Almost everyone has read a newspaper of some kind at some point. Many of us read a paper every day, and we’d be lost without them. But apart from...
The Importance of the Protestation in Genealogy
In the early 1640s, England was on the brink of Civil War between the King, Charles 1, and Parliament. It was a conflict no one wanted, and everyone...
Tracing Aristocratic Ancestors
For most people, trying to assemble a family tree is a long, often complicated process that involves going through endless records from any number of sources, and...
Tracing Huguenot History in England
Britain has a history of immigration – if you can go back in your own family tree far enough, the odds are that in your distant ancestry your forebears will have...
Tracing Your Family History Using Military Records
The two world wars saw huge numbers of people serving in the different branches of the military. During the 18th and 19th centuries, the King's...
Using Family Photographs to Trace Your Family
The meat and drink of genealogy might be names, dates and relationships, but there’s more to it than that. Photographs can, quite literally, fill...
Using Family Stories to Trace Family History
Every family has its family history, and family stories are part of that history. Some might be quite straightforward, about an unusual,...
Using Marriage Certificates for Genealogy Research
Along with birth and death certificates, marriage certificates are the real meat and potatoes of genealogy research. One of the great joys of them is...
Using Original Sources in Genealogy
When you begin your genealogy search into your family history, especially if you begin online, you'll be looking through sources that have almost certainly been...
