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'''When''', your relative left England is a clue to where your family is from. The industrial revolution left many English people without incomes, so they had no choice but to leave, and they went to area that hard workers were employed. People also left England because of religious views; Puritans, Quakers, Latter-day Saints (aka "Mormons"), and other groups left at various time periods. Each religous group had known township pockets where their followers lived before they left England. The information can be researched by looking at the history of these religions. | '''When''', your relative left England is a clue to where your family is from. The industrial revolution left many English people without incomes, so they had no choice but to leave, and they went to area that hard workers were employed. People also left England because of religious views; Puritans, Quakers, Latter-day Saints (aka "Mormons"), and other groups left at various time periods. Each religous group had known township pockets where their followers lived before they left England. The information can be researched by looking at the history of these religions. | ||
The Latter-day Saints have early mission records that have personal membership information. Very early | The Latter-day Saints have early mission records that have personal membership information. Very early latter-day Saint immigrants were organized into travel groups. Plans had to be made to guide thousands of new members to the United States, so you may need to research the journals of early Latter-day Saints and the Church information web sites and records. The new member records have been very important records to keep track of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. | ||
Most English Church parish records and township records made note of people leaving the area, because the | Most English Church parish records and township records made note of people leaving the area, because the responsibility to support poor parish members was removed when the person left the parish in different time periods. | ||
Records in England have been classified and grouped into helpful categories to aid our research. New records are still becoming | Records in England have been classified and grouped into helpful categories to aid our research. New records are still becoming available everyday. English records can answer so many genealogical research questions if you can focus on when the relative lived in England. After 1837 English vital record have been kept in one central location and all records can be ordered so you can see a copy of the orgial record. This process is explained in another section. Before 1837 records are still found in the parish where the English relative comes from. | ||
== Why == | == Why == | ||
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