Knowledge Base Index

• 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

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

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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