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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
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
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
‘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
The civil registration of marriage in Ireland commenced in April 1845 for couples marrying through Protestant denominations, or on a nondenominational basis through civil marriages performed by state-
