1) | First steps . |
2) | Finding Records . |
2.1) | BMD certificates Contents a) Birth certificates b) Marriage certificates c) Death certificates Ordering certificates from the GRO Some online sources Some offline sources . |
2.2) | Parish Records Contents Some online sources Some offline sources . |
2.3) | Census records Contents Some online sources Some offline sources . |
2.4) | Other records Wills, Directories, Newspapers, etc Some online sources Some offline sources . |
3) | Some common abbreviations . |
4) | Some Useful Links . |
BMD | Births Marriages & Deaths |
GRO | General Register Office order certificates online at http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificate/index.asp#0 |
GROS | General Register Office for Scotland search & view certificates, Scottish wills (to 1901), census and OPR baptism & marriage entries online at: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk |
NAS | National Archives of Scotland - home page: http://www.nas.gov.uk/ Online Public Access Catalogue http://www.rootschat.com/links/0z7/ |
LDS | (Church of Jesus Christ and) Latter Day Saints (Mormon church) |
TNA | The National Archives (formerly PRO) online at http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
PRO | Public Record Office (old name for the National Archives) |
PRONI | Public Record Office of Northern Ireland web site http://www.proni.gov.uk/ |
CRO | County Record Office |
LMA | London Metropolitan Archives http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/leisure_heritage/libraries_archives_museums_galleries/lma/lma.htm |
FFHS | Federation of Family History Societies web site http://www.ffhs.org.uk |
IGI | International Genealogical Index available on microfiche at many record offices and libraries. Also available online at http://www.familysearch.org |
BVRI2 | British Isles Vital Record Index 2nd edition available on CD from LDS church. complements the IGI |
NBI2 | National Burial Index 2nd edition available from the Federation of Family History Societies |
OPC | Online Parish Clerk. See "Useful Links" for more details. |
CMB | Christenings Marriages & Burials - used for the "all in one registers" found most often pre 1754 |
otp | of this parish |
otsp | of the same parish |
BTs | Bishops Transcripts |
MI | Memorial Inscription (or Marriage Index) |
Admon | Letters of Administration |
MS | Occupation: Male Servant; Name: maiden surname |
FS | Female Servant |
J | in conjunction with an occupation tends to mean Journeyman |
RD | Registration District |
ED | Enumeration District (census) |
PCC | Prerogative Court of Canterbury (probate of wills pre 1858) |
PCY | Prerogative Court of York (probate of wills pre 1858) |
freeBMD | http://www.freebmd.org.uk Quote from: website FreeBMD is an ongoing project, the aim of which is to transcribe the Civil Registration index of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales, and to provide free Internet access to the transcribed records. It is a part of the FreeUKGEN family, which also includes FreeCEN (Census data) and FreeREG (Parish Registers).. |
freeCEN | http://www.freecen.org.uk Quote from: website This project aims to provide a "free-to-view" online searchable database of the 19th century UK census returns.. |
freeREG | http://www.freereg.org.uk/ Quote from: website Our objective is to provide free Internet searches of baptism, marriage, and burial records, that have been transcribed from parish and non-conformist registers of the U.K.. |
UkBMD | http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/ (http://www.cheshirebmd.org.uk/images/ukbmdsm.gif) Quote from: website This site provides 1304 links to web sites that offer on-line transcriptions of UK births, marriages, deaths and censuses. A wide range of other indexes and transcriptions are also available for most counties, these may include parish records, wills, monumental inscriptions etc.. |
Barbara-Dixon's BMD site | http://home.clara.net/dixons/Certificates/indexbd.htm England and Wales Birth, Marriage, and Death Certificate Information . |
OPCs | Online Parish Clerks Quote from: website An Online Parish Clerk (OPC) researches all the available historical data they can find on a parish, records are transcribed, and in order to promote further private research, are made FREELY available to any researcher. An OPC is a volunteer and should not be confused with the civil Parish Clerk appointed by a Parish Council.See Topic: Online Parish Clerks - OPC http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,46825.0.html for links to OPCs for various counties. . |
FindMyPast/FindMyPast | http://www.findmypast.com . |
Ancestry | http://www.ancestry.com http://www.ancestry.co.uk http://www.ancestry.co.au http://www.ancestry.co.de . |
1901 Census | http://www.1901censusonline.com/ . |
1911 Census | http://www.1911census.co.uk/ . |
1881 Census | http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=census/search_census.asp . |
IGI | International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - IGI http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=igi/search_IGI.asp&clear_form=true . |
The National Archives/TNA | www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ . |
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