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Before presenting a list of indexes for large city researchers, first, let’s identify the most prime and reliable genealogical records—original records held and preserved in archives and record repositories which should be used to prove ancestry in England’s big cities from the present, back to early times. Here’s a list of the more used genealogical record sources of England used to compile family genealogies: | Before presenting a list of indexes for large city researchers, first, let’s identify the most prime and reliable genealogical records—original records held and preserved in archives and record repositories which should be used to prove ancestry in England’s big cities from the present, back to early times. Here’s a list of the more used genealogical record sources of England used to compile family genealogies: | ||
* Civil registration of births, marriages and deaths began July, 1837-present; at General Register Office, London (the national level) | |||
* Civil registration of births, marriages and deaths began July 1837 to present; at the local or registration district level throughout the country | |||
* Census records 1841-1911: all at the National Archives, Kew, Surrey England; many also are available at county record offices | |||
* Church registers 1538-present: registers of the Church of England and nonconformist church registers provide vital information and must be used to compile family pedigrees during this period; are at county record offices, sometimes at the local parish church, or many online indexes and transcribed records are available for roughly 60% of the ancient parishes of England. You can (and should) also Google the following three (or more) terms in order to find names of ancestors in church registers: | |||
* Google: city or borough or regional place-names, or name of record type, i.e. for baptisms or marriages or burials, census, military, and other records; also can add such terms as “index” or, in quotation marks, “surname index“ | |||
* City Directories – identify occupations, addresses, tenure of residence | |||
* Occupation, guild, trade or professional records – often give lineage-linked data | |||
* Tax assessment – land tenure and value, address; may suggest ancestral links | |||
* Probate records from 1304 to 1858 – including wills, administrations (admons), calendars, inventories, etc. | |||
* Manorial records – comprise mostly court rolls including court leet, court baron, court customary—all of which dealt with such issues as behavioral, tenancy, land conveyance and management, breaches of custom, crime, trade offenses, and nuisances, etc. [Note: Few of these records have been indexed] | |||
* Land Registry of Deeds – Middlesex from 1708 to 1988 | |||
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