Scottish civil birth records

The year 1841 was an important one for family historians. It was the year of the first full UK census; at least it was the first time that the UK census had recorded details of named individuals, but

Q I have a birth certificate for my 2 x great-grandfather born 18 April 1874. He was illegitimate, but his father’s name, crossed out, appears on it and a reference eleven (11) next to it with the reg

L ooking at proceedings from the Chancery Court, which are held by The National Archives at Kew (TNA; nationalarchives. gov.uk), is like shining a torch back into people’s lives in past centuries. No

Almost nine million parish records from Suffolk have been added to the family history website Ancestry (ancestry.co.uk). The site has released four sets of records from the Diocese of St Edmundsbury a

ANTHONY ADOLPH is a professional genealogist and the author of 11 books DAVE ANNAL is a genealogist, author and lecturer KATHERINE COBB is a member of AGRA based in Somerset ROGER KERSHAW is migration

For many years, my existence was a true case of “Who do you think you are?” I was born in 1952, and grew up thinking that my mum’s first husband was my father. His surname was Cassidy. Mum died in 198