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If you are looking for a specific database in Ancestry, try searching the [http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/alldblist.aspx Ancestry Card Catalog]. You can use keywords to find one database of interest amongst the hundreds of thousands available. Use keywords that describe the database, for example ''Pallots Marriage Index''. It is often helpful to search a particular database for your ancestor, as provides customized search field and limits extraneous results. | If you are looking for a specific database in Ancestry, try searching the [http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/alldblist.aspx Ancestry Card Catalog]. You can use keywords to find one database of interest amongst the hundreds of thousands available. Use keywords that describe the database, for example ''Pallots Marriage Index''. It is often helpful to search a particular database for your ancestor, as provides customized search field and limits extraneous results. | ||
You can also [http://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/locality/dbpage.aspx?tp=3257&p=3251 browse through all of the collections available]. (If you don't see the listing right away, scroll down the page.) You can click at the bottom of each record type to see the complete listing available. | You can also [http://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/locality/dbpage.aspx?tp=3257&p=3251 browse through all of the collections available]. (If you don't see the listing right away, scroll down the page.) You can click at the bottom of each record type to see the complete listing available. | ||
=== Census === | === Census === | ||
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*You, as a human being, can scroll through the results and will likely spot the person whose name has been mis-indexed. YOU ARE SMARTER THAN THE COMPUTER!<br> | *You, as a human being, can scroll through the results and will likely spot the person whose name has been mis-indexed. YOU ARE SMARTER THAN THE COMPUTER!<br> | ||
=== Civil Registration Indexes === | === Civil Registration Indexes === | ||
The English Government began [[ | The English Government began [[England Civil Registration|Civil Registration]] of births, marriages, and deaths for all of England (and [[Wales Civil Registration- Vital Records|Wales]]) on 1 Jul 1837. The INDEXES only are available on Ancestry.co.uk in two formats, [http://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/locality/dbpage.aspx?tp=3257&p=3251&categoryFilterID=34&showPaging=true computer searchable] (called ''England & Wales, FreeBMD'' Birth, Marriage, or Death ''Index: 1837-1915 ''or''1983''), and [http://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/locality/dbpage.aspx?tp=3257&p=3251&categoryFilterID=34&showPaging=true images of index pages] (called ''England & Wales, ''Birth, Marriage, or Death ''Index: 1837-1983''). The computer searchable indexes are also available on [http://www.freebmd.org.uk www.freebmd.org.uk] which many people find easier to use. | ||
=== Church Records === | === Church Records === | ||
[http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=5967 Pallot's Marriage Index] and [http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=5968 Pallot's Baptism Index] are available on Ancestry.co.uk. The marriage index contains some 3.4 million names from 1780-1837 and covers most of central London plus many other parishes scattered throughout England (it is far from complete, however). The baptism index contains approximately 600,000 names from 1780-1837. | |||
Another large index to marriages can be found under the [http://content.ancestry.co.uk/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=1541&offerid=0%3a7858%3a0 London Marriage Licenses] index. | |||
=== | There is a Church of England [http://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/locality/dbpage.aspx?tp=3257&p=3251&categoryFilterID=34&showPaging=true parish register collection], mostly taken from parish registers that have been transcribed and printed in books. While far from complete, it is a source that should not be overlooked when searching for a baptism, marriage or burial before 1837. | ||
| === Probate Records === | ||
Ancestry also boasts a modest collection of indexes to [http://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/locality/dbpage.aspx?tp=3257&p=3251&categoryFilterID=36&showPaging=true probate records]. | |||
=== Directories and Member Lists === | |||
[http://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/locality/dbpage.aspx?tp=3257&p=3251&categoryFilterID=37&showPaging=true This category] contains an enormous collection of UK directories, as well as the alumni books of [http://content.ancestry.co.uk/iexec/?htx=List&dbid=8942&offerid=0%3a7858%3a0 Oxford] (1500-1886) and [http://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=3997 Cambridge] (1261-1900) universities. | |||
=== Military Records === | |||
The most important collection of English military records available on Ancestry is the [http://content.ancestry.co.uk/iexec/?htx=List&dbid=1219&offerid=0%3a7858%3a0 World War I Service Records] and [http://content.ancestry.co.uk/iexec/?htx=List&dbid=1114&offerid=0%3a7858%3a0 World War I Pension records]. There are also [http://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/locality/dbpage.aspx?tp=3257&p=3251&categoryFilterID=39&showPaging=true medal rolls and other records] avaiable. | |||