Birth Marriage And Death Records

Birth, Marriage and Death records, along with The Census are essential pieces of information to help you find your family tree. There are lots of different record sets, all of which hold slightly different information and are stored in different ways. In this section you will find information on how to find the information and what to do with it once you have it.

How To Search The Main BMD Indexes on Ancestry

by Tricia
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When you use some of the online sites like Ancestry to find your family tree, you need to search the index in a way that isn’t always obvious.  Sometimes you need to actually trawl through the index itself rather than search using a name.  The way to do this is not difficult, once you know [...]

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Registration of Births, Marriages and Deaths

by Tricia
Marriage Certificate

As far as your search to find your family tree is concerned 1st July 1837 is a momentous date.  That is that date on which Civil Registration of Births, Marriages and Deaths became compulsory.  From that point on all Births and Deaths had to be reported to the local Registrar, Marriages were handled differently but [...]

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