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: 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
  

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: Searching for BMD on the IGI

Visual guide: Finding children by searching for their parents on the IGI

Visual guide: Searching the FreeBMD site

Visual guide: Searching for a marriage on FreeBMD when you only know the name 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: 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: Searching a census on Ancestry

Visual guide: Refine your search

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 the 1881 census on the LDS

Visual guide: Searching a census on ScotlandsPeople

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

• 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

Surname Directory ~ member interests

• Common Forename Abbreviations
  

• Latin Names and Genealogical Terms
  

• Latin Names in Catholic Records
  

• Naming Patterns
  

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

The Wiki Guide

• Adding Unwanted BMD Certificates

• Code for Hyperlinks

• Editing Your User Page

• Examples of useful code

• Formatting Text

• Help:Notes for Editors

• Help:Notes for Users

• Mixing Text and Images

• Navigating The Wiki

• New Pages

• Places of Worship ~ Adding Photographs

• Places of Worship ~ Photographs from a Thread

• Places of Worship ~ Resizing Photographs

• Places of Worship ~ Your Camera to The Wiki

• Searching The Wiki

• Style and Presentation

• Surname Help

• Template for County Pages

• The Playground

• Uploading Images to The Wiki

• Using Images as Hyperlinks

• Using Multiple Images

• Working With Images

• Working With Tables

• Copyright Guidelines
  

• Terms and Conditions
  

• 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)
  

Pages For General Computer Help

to be added soon

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