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Tracing English Immigrants From Abroad (view source)
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The steps below reveal how to best identify and prove ancestry in the rich genealogical records of England—including civil registration, parish registers and other records. | The steps below reveal how to best identify and prove ancestry in the rich genealogical records of England—including civil registration, parish registers and other records. | ||
==== '''Step 1: Search Home Records First'''==== | ==== '''Step 1: Search Home Records First''' ==== | ||
Search home records by thoroughly seeking for and searching in “home” sources and compiled family histories. This is a fundamental, preliminary exercise that will usually pay huge dividends in providing precise birth data from the outset of your search. It may not always be correct data, but it is a beginning and will help in narrowing down to the specific place of your ancestor’s nativity or residence in a large city or township in England. | Search home records by thoroughly seeking for and searching in “home” sources and compiled family histories. This is a fundamental, preliminary exercise that will usually pay huge dividends in providing precise birth data from the outset of your search. It may not always be correct data, but it is a beginning and will help in narrowing down to the specific place of your ancestor’s nativity or residence in a large city or township in England. | ||
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*Obituaries: often contain locality-specific residence or place of birth | *Obituaries: often contain locality-specific residence or place of birth | ||
*Certificate copies of vital records of marriage, death & | *Certificate copies of vital records of marriage, death & births: often give parents names and specific place of residence and/or of birth and more | ||
*Military papers, i.e. discharge, pension, enlistment, court martial, or awards of merit, valor: usually provide a place of birth and sometimes parents names | *Military papers, i.e. discharge, pension, enlistment, court martial, or awards of merit, valor: usually provide a place of birth and sometimes parents names | ||
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*Interview or correspond with—the more elderly members of extended family members and distant relatives which can prove very effective in obtaining clarifying information on specific locales for in-common ancestry and for obtaining assistance in collaborative research efforts | *Interview or correspond with—the more elderly members of extended family members and distant relatives which can prove very effective in obtaining clarifying information on specific locales for in-common ancestry and for obtaining assistance in collaborative research efforts | ||
Once you have gleaned as much information as possible from home sources, but still lack a specific birth place or residence then proceed to Step 2. If you succeeded in obtaining the specific township or parish in which your immigrant ancestor was born or resided before emigrating, then proceed to search in records of the specific England locale mentioned in Step 4. | Once you have gleaned as much information as possible from home sources, but still lack a specific birth place or residence then proceed to Step 2. If you succeeded in obtaining the specific township or parish in which your immigrant ancestor was born or resided before emigrating, then proceed to search in records of the specific England locale mentioned in Step 4. | ||
==== '''Step 2: Search Compiled Sources – Family Histories at Archives & Libraries Before'''==== | ==== '''Step 2: Search Compiled Sources – Family Histories at Archives & Libraries Before'''==== | ||