THE CLASSIFIED INDEX OF WIKI PAGES

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The Wiki Guide How to use The Wiki.

Advice On How To Begin Your Research

• Getting Started

• Online Research

• Using Census Returns

• Certificates (Civil Registration)

• 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

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

• Irish Research

Civil Registration

• Parish Registers

• IGI Batch Numbers - British Isles and North America

• Victorian Registrars and the GRO

• Searching for the Deceased

Certificates

Certificates

• England and Wales Certificates

• Scottish Records

• International 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

Census Returns

The Census

• Census address search

• Missing Census Pages

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: Missing family in 1861

Visual guide: Searching the 1881 census on the LDS

Other Types Of Records

• Adoption

• Coroners' Records

• 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

• Taxation Records

• Wills and Probate

Pages Dealing With Military And Maritime Resources

• Military and Maritime History

• Military Research

• Maritime History

• The Royal Navy

• Military History

• The British Army

• British Army Regiments

• The Royal Air Force

• World War One

• World War Two

• War Memorials

Pages For General Reference

====Miscellaneous====

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The Big Book of Genealogy

Our online photograph album: Places of Worship

• Costume Past and Present

• Degrees of Kinship

• Emigration and Immigration

• Forbidden Marriages

• Irish Political and Social History

• Jewish History and resources

• Maps

• Photographs

• Medical Terms & Diseases

• See How Your Ancestors Lived

Law and Law Enforcement

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• Crime and Punishment

• The English Legal System and English Law

• Family History Books

• Weights, Measures, Money and Time

====Publications====

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FTF Online Magazine

• Family History Publications

• Newspapers

====Names====

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Surname Directory ~ Member Interests

• Common Forename Abbreviations

• Latin Names in Catholic Records

• Naming Patterns

====Trades and occupations====

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• Miscellaneous Trades and Occupations

• Canals and Waterways

• Directories: Trade, Street and City

• Fairground, Showmen and Travellers

• Farming and Agriculture

• Inns and Public Houses

• Medical Professions

• Mining and Heavy Industry

• Victorian and Edwardian Photographers

• The Police

• Roads and Railways

• Religion and the Clergy

• Sport

• Stonemasons

• Theatre and Entertainment

==Help with using The Wiki==

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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

==Site Guidelines==

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*Copyright Guidelines

*Terms and Conditions

*GNU Free Documentation License

==Help With Genealogy Related Software==

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• GEDCOMs Explained

• Example GEDCOM file

• GEDCOM Troubleshooter

• How to Upload 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==

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• How to Scan Photos

• How To Crop a Scanned Image

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