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-''[[Europe]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[British Isles]][[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[England Genealogy|England]]''
+''[[Europe]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]]'' '''Great Britain'''
-Guide to '''England ancestry, family history and genealogy''': parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
-{{England-sidebar}}
-[[Image:Flag of England.png|border|right|120px|Flag of England.png]] '''England '''is a one of the four constituent countries of the [[United Kingdom]] (together with [[Scotland Genealogy|Scotland]], [[Wales Genealogy|Wales]] and [[Northern Ireland Genealogy|Northern Ireland]]). It has a history that goes back over a thousand years. In 1707, the Kingdom of England joined the [[Scotland|Kingdom of Scotland]] in union to become the [[Great Britain|Kingdom of Great Britain]].
+Guide to '''Great Britain ancestry, family history and genealogy''': parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
 '''Great Britain''', or simply '''Britain''', is an island situated to the north-west of continental Europe. The name '''Britain''' comes from the Latin name for the island, ''Britannia'', meaning "''the land of the Britons''", the Celtic tribes who inhabited the island at that time.