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TheGenealogist: break down your brickwalls

Rosemary Kopittke

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Great Britain & Ireland

• Civil registrations & Parish records• Official Non-Conformist Registers• Census (1911 being added progressively)• Directories• Military records• Land records• Electoral Rolls and Poll Books• PCC Wills and images• Peerage & heritage records• Newspapers & magazines• Occupational lists

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BMDs

•Award winning BMD service•YFT Magazine site of the year•Includes entries missing from the

microfiche and film•Overseas BMDs•Now completely searchable marriages

back to 1837, births from 1960 and deaths from 1984

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GRO Overseas BMDs

•Marine Births & Deaths 1837-1965•Army Births, Marriages & Deaths 1747-

1980•Air Births, Deaths & Missing 1949-1966•Informal certificates of births at sea

1839-1867•Consular records

▫Births 1849-1885▫Marriages 1916-1935▫Deaths 1849-1940

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TNA Overseas Birth Records

•RG33 Overseas BMD and burials of British subjects including those on board ships▫Covers 1627 to 1960▫Contains original registers, notebooks

and copies of entries•RG32 POWs and Civilian deaths•RG34 Foreign marriages including WWI•Lots more ...

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Non-Conformist & Non-Parochial Records

•Largest collection of non-conformist records online – over 8 million individuals

•Invaluable for non-conformist families•Produce trees•Includes early birth certificates•Many records contain extensive

information

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Non-Conformist Records

•RG4 Series▫Baptisms, Marriages, Deaths and Burials

1567-1858▫Includes Baptist, Independent

Presbyterian, Wesleyans, Roman Catholics and Protestant Refugees

•RG8 Series▫British Lying-in Hospital, Holborn 1749-

1868▫Very detailed records of births &

baptisms

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Non-Conformist Records

•RG6 Series – Quakers (Society of Friends) ▫1.3 million individuals complete with

images and family tree•RG7 Series – Fleet marriages

▫1667 to 1777▫800,000 people listed▫Over half of London marriages were here

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Primitive Methodist Connexion at Ebenezer Chapel in St Peter’s Place, Stockport

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Registers of Births, Marriages and Deaths of Passengers at Sea from 1856 to 1865

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Parish Records

•Millions of records from 1540 onwards•Transcript books•Original register images•Transcript databases•Continually expanding ... Many Catholic

registers just released in October

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Census

•Complete census for England and Wales•Full transcripts•Images•1911 census project underway – over 8

million records so far (19 counties)•Save records to log or TreeView

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Census – Name Maps

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Census – Marriage Finder

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PCC Wills 1384 to 1858

•Over 840,000 Wills•Over 200 years complete•All mariners had to make a will before

going to sea

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Military Records

•Largest set of Army and Navy Lists available online

•WWI deaths•WW2 Deaths•Rolls of Honour•and more ...

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Poll Books and Directories

•Directories – Post Office, Commercial and Telephone

•Poll Books – useful as early voters lists

•Electoral registers•Electoral Roll London

2005

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Diamond Content – priority access•A greater range of electoral records

including new transcripts•International records•Newspapers and magazines•Telephone directories•Occupational lists•Peerage and heritage records•Regimental records

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International records

Australia•Electoral rolls (can only see Qld 1900)•Transportation records•Census & muster rolls•Directories from 1834-1937•New South Wales Landholders•Telephone directories•Regional Cyclopaedias & Dictionaries of

Biography

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International records

New Zealand•Post Office Directories•Early Settler’s Lists & Biographies•Military Records

▫Rolls of Honour▫Regimental records▫Biographies and histories

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International records

America•Wills – Delaware,

Maryland, New York•Elector lists

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Search methods

•Keyword•Classic Master Name•Street and House•Family Forename Search•Advanced•Search specific databases

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Keyword Master Search

•Use ANY information to search for a person▫Name▫Occupation▫Address▫Number (for example, street number /

age)•Entries will be returned which match

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Family Forename Search

•Ideal for the Smiths, Browns, Joneses and other common surnames

•Good for finding names resulting from poor handwriting

•Can enter multiple forenames•Can use County / Surname / Birth

decade to refine the search

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Classic Master Name Search

•Just enter the surname and/or forename•Returns matches across all databases•Select one of interest

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Street & House Search

•Select the year and county of interest•Enter at least 3 letters from the address•Can use wildcards•Select from the matching streets•Select the house in the street

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Street & House Search

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•Allows you to store and optionally share your tree

•Upload and attach pictures to family•Attach records from your research•View all relatives in one go with the

“Full Tree” view•Search across millions of records from

other users family trees

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Research Log

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