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Gibraltar is little more than a rocky out crop, the home of the famous Barbary apes that frequent the ‘Rock’. It is a self-governing British colony, situated on a small, narrow peninsula at the southern edge of Spain. Claimed by the British in 1713, today it is an important air base for British Forces, also including a major Naval Base.
 
Gibraltar is little more than a rocky out crop, the home of the famous Barbary apes that frequent the ‘Rock’. It is a self-governing British colony, situated on a small, narrow peninsula at the southern edge of Spain. Claimed by the British in 1713, today it is an important air base for British Forces, also including a major Naval Base.
  
Gibraltar Map: source Wikipedia
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[[File:GIBRALTAR MAP copy.JPG|right|200px|thumb|Wikipedia Image; Gibraltar Map]]
  
 
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==Resources==
 
==Resources==
 
*[https://www.nationalarchives.gi/ Gibraltar Archives]
 
*[https://www.nationalarchives.gi/ Gibraltar Archives]
Gibraltar Genealogy Search Page
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*[http://www.gibraltargenealogy.com/ Gibraltar Genealogy]
Trafalgar Cemetery
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*[http://www.interment.net/data/gib/trafalgar/index.htm Trafalgar Cemetery]
Gibraltar Chronical Newspaper
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*[https://www.chronicle.gi/Gibraltar Chronicle Newspaper]
History of Gibraltar
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*[https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryMagazine/DestinationsUK/History-of-Gibraltar/ History of Gibraltar]
Census - 1777, 1791 & 1878
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*[https://www.nationalarchives.gi/Inhabitants.aspx Census - 1777, 1791 & 1878]
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*[https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/places/europe/gibraltar/ Ancestrys Gibraltar page]
 
 
 
 
 
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Tel: 00 350 51725<br>
 
Tel: 00 350 51725<br>
 
Fax: 00 350 42706<br>
 
Fax: 00 350 42706<br>
Email:csro@gibnynex.gi <br>
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Website address: www.gibraltar.gov.gi <br>
 
Website address: www.gibraltar.gov.gi <br>
 
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Latest revision as of 07:37, 21 September 2022


​ Gibraltar is little more than a rocky out crop, the home of the famous Barbary apes that frequent the ‘Rock’. It is a self-governing British colony, situated on a small, narrow peninsula at the southern edge of Spain. Claimed by the British in 1713, today it is an important air base for British Forces, also including a major Naval Base.

Wikipedia Image; Gibraltar Map



Resources

 

Register Office

Civil Status and Registration Office
Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
Joshua Hassan House
3 Secretary's Lane
Gibraltar


Tel: 00 350 51725
Fax: 00 350 42706
Email mailto:csro@gibnynex.gi
Website address: www.gibraltar.gov.gi




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