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=== '''Civil Registration: Overseas British Citizens & Military Personnel'''<br> === | === '''Civil Registration: Overseas British Citizens & Military Personnel'''<br> === | ||
Parliament passed legislation creating a civil registration of births, marriages, and deaths for English, Scots, Irish and Welsh subjects living abroad, or also known as British subjects abroad. Where registration in England and Wales began 1 July 1837, for those British and Irish subjects living overseas, registration began at differing time periods. <br> | Parliament passed legislation creating a civil registration of births, marriages, and deaths for English, Scots, Irish and Welsh subjects living abroad, or also known as British subjects abroad. Where registration in England and Wales began 1 July 1837, for those British and Irish subjects living overseas, registration began at differing time periods in different countries. <br> | ||
Returns of births, marriages and deaths of British subjects, including military personnel and their families to the General Register Office in England begin as early as | Returns of births, marriages and deaths of British subjects overseas, on ships, and including military personnel and their families were sent to the General Register Office, Bishop of London, and later, to the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys in England. These returns may begin as early as 1627 but most especially by mid-19th century. <br> | ||
For a brief list of the several register series of births, marriages and deaths affecting British subjects abroad, consider the various records cited below. Some of these records are held at the General Register Office (sometimes known as The Registrar General) at:<br> | For a brief list of the several register series of births, marriages and deaths affecting British subjects abroad, consider the various records cited below. Some of these records are held at the General Register Office (sometimes known as The Registrar General) at:<br> | ||
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*Indexes to all the above "Miscellaneous" series from 1826-1945 are found in RG43 | *Indexes to all the above "Miscellaneous" series from 1826-1945 are found in RG43 | ||
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=== Indexes at The Family History Library === | === Indexes at The Family History Library === | ||