Getting Started / Beginners Links

[Berlin-Bob]

3) Some Common Abbreviations


In genealogy, as in every area, there are many abbreviations used, which you will soon become familiar with.

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.

Other abbreviations which may need some explaining:

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)

You can find lots more abbreviations in the
RootsChat Reference Library => Lexicon ^{(click here)}

[Berlin-Bob]

4) Some Useful Links

Here are some of the web-links you will meet most frequently. 
In the first column is the name they are most frequently known by.

freeBMD	http://www.freebmd.org.uk 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 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/ 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/ 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 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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[Berlin-Bob]

You can find find these links and more in the RootsChat Reference Library => Useful Links ^{(click here)}
(Tip: click on a category - on the right - for related topics)

And you can also find many more links on the Useful Links board, in the following topics:

• LINKS - Archives, Libraries, Museums
  
• LINKS - Armed Forces
  
• LINKS - Census Records
  
• LINKS - Churches, Clergymen, MIs and Cemeteries
  
• LINKS - Directories
  
• LINKS - Documents
  
• LINKS - Genealogy Guides and Tutorials
  
• LINKS - Land & Property Records, Electoral rolls, Poll Tax, etc.
  
• LINKS - Law & Order: Crime and Litigation
  
• LINKS - Link lists
  
• LINKS - Maps
  
• LINKS - Medical
  
• LINKS - Newspapers, Magazines and other Media
  
• LINKS - Occupations
  
• LINKS - People
  
• LINKS - Places
  
• LINKS - Religious Denominations
  
• LINKS - Schools and Institutions
  
• LINKS - Social History: Clothing, Food, Value of Money, ...
  
• LINKS - Transport
  
• LINKS - Vital Records: Birth, Marriage and Death Certificates, Church Records
  
• LINKS - Wills
  

[dobfarm]

Starting point

http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp

http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#start

http://www.archives.wyjs.org.uk/wyjs-archives-collections-guides.asp

http://www.calmview.eu/WY/dserve.exe?dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&search=advanced&dsqCmd=Search.tcl

http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/index.php?county=140&form_action=county&classification=256

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hughwallis/
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Use the London website for LDS number and view at the yours nearest LDS library

enter any parish

http://www.londonfhc.org/

http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/FHC/frameset_fhc.asp?PAGE=library_fhc_find.asp
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http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/Misc/Maps/ParishMaps.html

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/churchdb/
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Wills and  Marriage by licence bond allegations

http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/bihr/
 
Just Wills

http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/bihr/

http://www.originsnetwork.com/help/aboutNWI-ymed.aspx

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/Misc/Docs/YINDEX.txt
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Odds & sods
http://www.durtnall.org.uk/DEEDSIndex.html

http://www.icmacentre.ac.uk/soldier/database/index.php

http://www.historytoherstory.org.uk/



http://www.genuki.org.uk/search/

http://www.archive.org/

http://www.archive.org/stream/monumentalotheri00cros/monumentalotheri00cros_djvu.txt



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