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− | * '''[[:Category:Starting Out|Starting Out]]''' Advice and resources for carrying out your research.
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− | :* [[:Category:Online Research|Online Research]]
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− | :* [[:Category:Census Search|Using Census Returns]]
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− | :* [[:Category:Certificates|Certificates (Civil Registration)]]
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− | * '''[[:Category:General Reference|General Reference]]''' Information, reference and resources.
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− | * '''[[:Category:Regional Projects|Regional Projects]]''' Includes the Project ~ '''[[Places of Worship]]'''
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− | * '''[[Family Tree Forum Costume Gallery]]'''
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− | * '''[[:Category:Adopted Pages|Adopted Pages]]'''
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− | [[image:minibad.jpg]] '''[[:Category:Help|The Wiki Guide]] How to use The Wiki.
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− | ==Advice On How To Begin Your Research==
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− | '''[[Creating Your Family Tree]]'''
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− | :*[[How to store it all...]]
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− | :*[[Method of recording Direct Ancestors]]
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− | '''Visual guide:''' [[Tracking down your ancestors before 1900]]
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− | '''Case Study:''' [[Searching for the records of James William Sudder]]
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− | ==Carrying Out Your Research==
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− | '''[[Online Research]]'''
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− | :*[[Site Reviews]]
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− | '''Collections of links categorised by location:~'''
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− | These pages are where any link which is specific to any country (or county) on any topic will be found.
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− | :*'''[[The British Isles]]'''
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− | :*'''[[World Index Page]]'''
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− | '''Visual guide:''' [[Visual Introduction to Family Search]]
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− | '''Visual guide:''' [[Visual Introduction to ScotlandsPeople]]
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− | ====Record Offices, Archives Etc.====
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− | '''[[Records Office Guide]]'''
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− | :*[[Latter Day Saints Family History Libraries]] (LDS)
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− | :*[[The National Archives|A Guide to using the National Archives & A2A websites]]
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− | '''Visual guide:''' [[Using the Global Search box on the National Archives Home Page]]
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− | '''Visual guide:''' [[Searching the NRA Catalogue]]
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− | '''Visual guide:''' [[Finding and downloading a medal card]]
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− | '''Visual guide:''' [[Finding and downloading a will]]
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− | '''Visual guide:''' [[Searching the Catalogue]]
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− | *[[Archive Collections]]
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− | *[[A-Z of County/Local Council Contacts]]
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− | *[[Research venues|National research venues]]
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− | *[[English and Welsh Archives offices ]]
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− | *[[Irish Research]]
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− | *[[Scotland Archive offices]]
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− | *[[Other Genealogical Wiki Sites]]
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− | ====Civil Registration====
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− | *[[Registration Districts]]
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− | *[[Victorian Registrars and the GRO]]
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− | *[[Searching for the Deceased]]
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− | ====Certificates====
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− | '''[[All About Certificates]] '''
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− | *[[BMD Certificates]]
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− | *[[Scanned and Handwritten Certificates Guide]]
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− | *[[England and Wales Certificates]]
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− | *[[Ordering Maltese Certificates]]
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− | *[[Unwanted Certificates]] ~ members' unwanted certificates
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− | '''Visual guide:''' [[Finding a Birth on Ancestry Partial BMD Index|Finding a Birth Reference on Ancestry Partial BMD Index]]
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− | '''Visual guide:''' [[Searching for BMD on the IGI]]
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− | '''Visual guide:''' [[Finding children by searching for their parents on the IGI]]
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− | '''Visual guide:''' [[Searching the FreeBMD site]]
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− | '''Visual guide:''' [[Searching for a marriage when you only know the names of one spouse|Searching for a marriage on FreeBMD when you only know the name of one spouse]]
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− | '''Visual guide:''' [[Searching for BMD on ScotlandsPeople]]
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− | '''Visual guide:''' [[Searching for BMD on FindMyPast]][[image:unfinish.jpg]]
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− | '''Visual guide:''' [[Using the Complete BMD indexes on ancestry]][[image:unfinish.jpg]]
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− | ====Census Returns====
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− | '''[[Census Search]] '''
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− | *[[Census address search]]
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− | *[[Missing your relatives in 1881?]]
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− | '''Case study:''' [[Finding Martha]]
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− | '''Visual guide:''' [[Searching a census on Ancestry]]
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− | '''Visual guide:''' [[Refine your search]]
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− | '''Visual guide:''' [[The surname may have been written differently]]
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− | '''Visual guide:''' [[Finding images from a particular parish]]
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− | '''Visual guide:''' [[Finding those names]]
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− | '''Visual guide:''' [[Missing family in 1861]]
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− | '''Visual guide:''' [[Searching the 1881 census on the LDS]]
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− | '''Visual guide:''' [[Searching a census on ScotlandsPeople]] [[image:unfinish.jpg]]
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− | ====Other Types Of Records====
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− | *[[Adoption]]
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− | *[[Directories of Victorian and Edwardian Photographers]]
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− | '''The [[Big Book]] of Genealogy'''
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− | *[[Information about Specific Cemeteries]]
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− | *[[Irish Political and Social History]]
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− | *[[Cemetery Lookup -Terms and Conditions|Lookups ~ Terms and Conditions]]
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− | *[[Records Office/Cemetery/Churchyard Lookups|Lookups ~ What is needed?]]
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− | *[[Records Office/Cemetery/Graveyard Lookups]]
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− | *[[Maps and Photography]]
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− | *[[See How Your Ancestors Lived]]
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− | ====Publications====
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− | ==Help with using The Wiki==
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− | [[image:minibad.jpg]] '''[[:Category:Help|The Wiki Guide]]
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− | :*[[Adding Unwanted BMD Certificates]]
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− | :*[[Editing Your User Page]]
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− | *[[GEDCOM File Guide and FAQ]]
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− | *[[Example GEDCOM file]]
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− | *[[GEDCOM Troubleshooter]]
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− | *[[Legacy ]]
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− | *[[Family Historian]]
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