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Without question, every French genealogy research project begins with parish and civil registers. For some 250 years prior to the French Revolution (1787–1799), the Catholic Church in France, under a

Before the introduction of civil registration of births, marriages and deaths in England and Wales in 1837, it is the parochial registers recording the baptisms, marriages and burials of our ancestors

ANTHONY ADOLPH is a professional genealogist and the author of 11 books PAUL BLAKE is the author of Tracing Your Insolvent Ancestors KATHERINE COBB is a member of AGRA based in Somerset JAYNE SHRIMPTO

More than 1.7 million records from the Channel Island of Guernsey have been added to family history website Findmypast (findmypast.co.uk). During the past year over four centuries of records have been

Bury-born actor Layton Williams, a familiar face from Strictly Come Dancing and BBC Three’s sitcom Bad Education, goes in search of his London roots in the latest series of WDYTYA?. If you also have L

‘Merry England’ is definitely a romanticised lens through which to view the later Medieval period. You only have to glimpse the often gory manuscripts and woodcuts to be reminded of this. But, for us