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The internet can be a useful source of records and information connected with family history research. There are a number of useful sites available and knowing which to use and how to use them effectively can be confusing.
 
The internet can be a useful source of records and information connected with family history research. There are a number of useful sites available and knowing which to use and how to use them effectively can be confusing.
  
Which sites to use can depend on a number of factors, a brief overview of the popular sites are shown below. They are not comprehensive site descriptions as space is limited but a visit to the sites mentioned will reveal more information.
 
 
Trying to find specific records can sometimes seem impossible but by using the screenshot examples in this section knowing how to search for a birth record or locating a missing family in the census is explained. The examples given are based on actual searches and demonstrate how researchers found the results they needed to continue with their trees. A screenshot guide to search options for the Familysearch, A2A and The National Archives websites are also included.
 
 
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| width="800" style="color:white" bgcolor="LightSteelBlue"|'''SITE REVIEWS'''
 
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*[[Site Reviews]]<br><br>
 
 
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| width="800" style="color:white" bgcolor="LightSteelBlue"|'''General Hints & Tips For Online Searching'''
 
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*[[Census Search]] <br><br>
 
 
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*[[Searching the FreeBMD site]] (FREE)
 
  
*[[Searching the IGI – including Hugh Wallis and using batch numbers]] (FREE)
 
  
*[[Searching for BMD on FindMyPast]] (FREE SEARCH – THEN PAYING)
 
  
*[[Searching for BMD on ScotlandsPeople]] (FREE SEARCH – THEN PAYING)
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*[[Searching for BMD on Family Relatives]] (FREE SEARCH – THEN PAYING)
 
 
 
*[[Partial FreeBMD - finding a birth reference]] (PAYING)
 
 
 
*[[Using the Complete BMD indexes on ancestry]] (PAYING)
 
 
 
 
 
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Revision as of 16:18, 17 March 2007

Experimenting with layout and colour and learning how the code works at the same time. See Online Research alt for a skin friendly version


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Tim is horrible!!!

Choose the county from the contents page - the red ones aren't started

Choose create new page

Choose Edit

On the threads: [url=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~tinstaafl/]Norfolk Baptism Project[/url]

On the Wiki

The asterisk is the bullet point


gives an extra line

or highlight and use the button for bold


is a horizontal line or use the button

The ===== is for making a contents - it will do that automatically if there are more than four headings.

Register Office Contact Details
Name of office
Links



TIP: If you don't press enter at the end of each line of the address, it all gets jammed up on one line

TIP: Whatever you do, dont test the link while you are in preview or you lose it all!!!


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ONLINE SEARCH TECHNIQUES

The internet can be a useful source of records and information connected with family history research. There are a number of useful sites available and knowing which to use and how to use them effectively can be confusing.


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Searching for Hatches, Matches And Dispatches


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ENGLISH COUNTIES
Bedfordshire Berkshire Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire
Cheshire Cornwall Cumberland Derbyshire
Devon Dorset Durham Essex
Gloucestershire Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire
Huntingdonshire Isle of Wight Kent Lancashire
Leicestershire Lincolnshire LONDON (Middlesex) Norfolk
Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire
Rutland Shropshire Somerset Staffordshire
Suffolk Surrey Sussex Warwickshire
Westmoreland Wiltshire Worcestershire Yorkshire
Channel Islands and Crown Dependencies