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:Extensive collections range from Stone Age Cornwall to Contemporary Art, telling stories across cultures and also across the last ten thousand years. | :Extensive collections range from Stone Age Cornwall to Contemporary Art, telling stories across cultures and also across the last ten thousand years. | ||
==Civil Records Offices== | ==Civil Records Offices== | ||
The [https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/ '''General Register Office'''] holds a central copy of all birth, marriage, and death registrations in England. These certificates can be ordered from their [https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/ website] (a login is required but it is free to register and search). However, in some cases research can be more efficient working with the smaller, more specific records collections of county registry offices. | The [https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/ '''General Register Office'''] holds a central copy of all birth, marriage, and death registrations in England. These certificates can be ordered from their [https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/ website] (a login is required but it is free to register and search). However, in some cases research can be more efficient working with the smaller, more specific records collections of county/district registry offices. | ||
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Sometimes research might be required to determine where a town or parish was in a former registration district, or even its current district. For a list of the '''historic and current registration districts and their parishes''', see [https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/reg/cnw.html UKBMD: Registration Districts in Cornwall]. | Sometimes research might be required to determine where a town or parish was in a former registration district, or even its current district. For a list of the '''historic and current registration districts and their parishes''', see [https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/reg/cnw.html UKBMD: Registration Districts in Cornwall]. | ||