THE CLASSIFIED INDEX OF WIKI PAGES

Advice On How To Begin Your Research

Creating Your Family Tree
How to store it all...
Method of recording Direct Ancestors

Visual guide: Tracking down your ancestors before 1900

Case Study: Searching for the records of James William Sudder

Carrying Out Your Research

• Online Research
  
• Site Reviews
  

Collections of links categorised by location:~

These pages are where any link which is specific to any country (or county) on any topic will be found.

• The British Isles
  
• World Index Page
  

Visual guide: Visual Introduction to Family Search
Visual guide: Visual Introduction to ScotlandsPeople

Record Offices, Archives And Other Research Avenues

• Records Office Guide
  

• Latter Day Saints Family History Libraries (LDS)
  

• A Guide to using the National Archives & A2A websites

Visual guide: Using the Global Search box on the National Archives Home Page
Visual guide: Searching the NRA Catalogue
Visual guide: Finding and downloading a medal card
Visual guide: Finding and downloading a will
Visual guide: Refine your search
Visual guide: Searching the Catalogue

• Archive Collections
  
• A-Z of County/Local Council Contacts
  
• County research venues
  
• National research venues
  
• English and Welsh Archives offices
  
• Irish Research
  
• Scotland Archive offices
  
• Scotland Archive offices
  

• Other Genealogical Wiki Sites
  
• Other Wiki Sites
  

Civil Registration

• Registration Districts
  
• Roman Numerals for Registration Districts
  

• Parish Registers
  
• IGI Batch Numbers - British Isles and North America
  

• Victorian Registrars and the GRO
  

• Searching for the Deceased
  

Certificates

• All About Certificates
  
• BMD Certificates
  
• Certificate tutorials
  
• Scanned and Handwritten Certificates Guide
  
• England and Wales Certificates
  
• International Certificates
  
• Ordering Maltese Certificates
  
• Scottish Certificates
  
• Unwanted Certificates ~ members' unwanted certificates
  

Visual guide: Finding a Birth Reference on Ancestry Partial BMD Index
Visual guide: Finding children by searching for their parents on the IGI
Visual guide: Partial FreeBMD - finding a birth reference
Visual guide: Searching the FreeBMD site
Visual guide: Complicated search for a marriage
Visual guide: Searching for a marriage when you only know the names of one spouse
Visual guide: Searching for BMD on Family Relatives
Visual guide: Searching for BMD on FindMyPast
Visual guide: Searching for BMD on ScotlandsPeople
Visual guide: Searching for BMD on the IGI
Visual guide: Using the Complete BMD indexes on ancestry

Census Returns

• Census Search
  
• Census address search
  
• Missing Census Pages
  
• Missing your relatives in 1881?
  

Case study: Finding Martha

Visual guide: The surname may have been written differently
Visual guide: Finding images from a particular parish
Visual guide: Finding those names
Visual guide: Missing family in 1861
Visual guide: Searching a census on Ancestry
Visual guide: Searching a census on ScotlandsPeople
Visual guide: Searching the 1881 census on the LDS

Other Types Of Records

• Adoption
  
• Coroner’s Records
  
• Directories of Victorian and Edwardian Photographers
  
• Directories: Trade, Street and City
  
• Divorce and Annulments
  
• Electoral Registers and Poll Books
  
• Hospital Records
  
• Manorial, Land and Estate Deeds
  
• Poor Law and Workhouse Records
  
• School Records
  
• Scottish Records
  
• Taxation Records
  
• Wills and Probate
  

Pages Dealing With Military And Maritime Resources

• Maritime
  
• Records of Merchant Seamen
  
• The Royal Navy
  

• Military
  *A-Z List of Ex-Military Service
  
• Military Records
  

• The Army
  
• British Army Regiments
  

• The Royal Air Force
  

• World War One
  
• World War Two
  

Pages For General Reference

Miscellaneous

The Big Book of genealogy

Our online photograph album: Places of Worship
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• Information about Specific Cemeteries
  
• Cemetery Lookup -Terms and Conditions
  
• Records Office/Cemetery/Churchyard Lookups
  
• Records Office/Cemetery/Graveyard Lookups
  

• Charitable Organisations
  

• Degrees of Kinship
  

• Forbidden Marriages
  

• Medical Terms & Diseases
  

• Useful Background Books
  

• Useful Reference Information
  

• Weights and Measures
  

• Maps and Photography
  
• Maps: Tithe and Ordnance Survey
  

• Emigration and Immigration
  

• The English Legal System
  

• Photographs
  

• Architectural drawings and building plans
  

• Costume Past and Present
  

• See How Your Ancestors Lived
  

• Irish Political and Social History
  

Publications

FTF Online Magazine

• Family History Publications
  

• Newspapers and Journals
  

Names

• Common Forename Abbreviations
  
• Latin Names and Genealogical Terms
  
• Latin Names in Catholic Records
  
• Naming Patterns
  
• Surname Directory ~ member interests
  
• Surname Help
  

Trades and occupations

• Law and Law Enforcement
  
• Bankrupts
  
• Bargemen/Boatmen/Watermen/Lightermen
  
• Canals and Canal Carriers
  
• Directories of Victorian and Edwardian Photographers
  
• Directories: Trade, Street and City
  
• Entertainment
  
• Fairground/Showmen/Travellers
  
• Farming and Agriculture
  
• Inns and Public Houses
  
• Mining and Heavy Industry
  
• Railways
  
• Religion and the Clergy
  
• Stonemasons
  

Pages About The Forum And The Wiki

Copyright Guidelines
Terms and Conditions
Help Pages for Users
Navigating the Wiki
Find Your Way Around The Wiki
Searching the Wiki
How To Align Non-Uploaded Images
Hyperlink Code
Examples of useful code
Surname Help
GNU Free Documentation License

Pages For Help With Genealogy Related Software

GEDCOM File Guide and FAQ
Example GEDCOM file
GEDCOM Troubleshooter
Uploading a GEDCOM to Family Tree Forum

Genealogy Applications and Packages
Legacy
Family Historian
Family Tree Maker (FTM)
Personal Ancestral File (PAF)