THE CLASSIFIED INDEX OF WIKI PAGES

Starting Out Advice and resources for carrying out your research. Online Research Using Census Returns Certificates (Civil Registration) General Reference Information, reference and resources. Regional Projects Includes the Project ~ Places of Worship Adopted Pages The Wiki Guide How to use The Wiki. Work in progress

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 Etc.

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

• Other Genealogical Wiki Sites

Civil Registration

• 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 ScotlandsPeople

Visual guide: Searching for BMD on Family Relatives

Visual guide: Searching for BMD on FindMyPast

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

• Architectural drawings and building plans

• Charitable Organisations

• Costume Past and Present

• Degrees of Kinship

• Emigration and Immigration

• Forbidden Marriages

• Information about Specific Cemeteries

• Irish Political and Social History

• Lookups ~ Terms and Conditions

• Lookups ~ What is needed?

• Records Office/Cemetery/Graveyard Lookups

• Maps and Photography

• Maps: Tithe and Ordnance Survey

• Medical Terms & Diseases

• Photographs

• See How Your Ancestors Lived

• Law and Law Enforcement

• Useful Background Books

• Useful Reference Information

• Weights and Measures

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

Help with using 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

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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