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5 Useful Links

We have listed a selection of websites that we think you may find useful in your research. These links are for websites that are provide general help. Links specific to particular countries or areas of research can be found within section 3 of this guide.

www.freebmd.org	This is a database intended to contain an index of all birth, marriage and death registrations in England and Wales from 1837 to 1983 and is free to use. This database is not yet complete (currently most indexes are complete from 1837 up to about 1929). You can search the indexes very easily making it quick to search. an ongoing project, the aim of which is to transcribe the Civil Registration index of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales This database is a searchable, digitized version of the indexes of civil registrations in England and Wales, reported quarterly to the General Register Office (GRO) in London. This index spans the years between 1837 and 1983. Approximately 50% of the names between 1837 and 1900 have been transcribed thus far. You need the information found in an original index to request a copy of a marriage certificate for the individual referenced.
genuki	GENUKI is the genealogical information service for the UK and Ireland, containing a large structured tree of information. A large collection of pointers to genealogical information for the UK and Ireland.
www.cyndislist.com	A large categorized and cross-referenced directory of sites useful for genealogical research, with hundreds of thousands of links.
www.familysearch.org	Run by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this site provides an online search of the millions of names in its International Genealogical Index
www.ancestry.co.uk	This site holds digital images of births, marriages and deaths in England and Wales between 1837 and 1983 and a database of transcribed indexes of registrations from 1984 to 2004. It also contains a searchable set of census images for England, Scotland and Wales for all censuses from 1841 to 1901. You will need to subscribe or buy pay per view vouchers to view these images.

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