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 After you have organized your information make copies of family charts, photographs, and stories, and share them with family members. This will ensure that your family information is preserved and may help to interest other family members in their family history. Using what you have gathered, decide what you would like to learn next. Decide which ancestors you would like to know more about and where you might find additional information about them. You could also leave a written history of yourself for family members and posterity.
-== Step 5. What should I do next==
+== Step 5. What should I do next ==
-For questions within the following range of years
-* Present to 1901
-* 1837 through 1901<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In 1841 and every 10 years following a recorded census was taken.&nbsp; The 1841 through 1901 Censuses are index and&nbsp;available online to be searched.&nbsp;&nbsp; This can help you establish an area that your ancestors lived in.&nbsp; Other vital information can be gleaned from the census: people living in the house and their relationships, approximate year of birth and place of birth.
-<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; July 1st 1837 civil registration began.&nbsp; All birth marriages and deaths were to be registered at the local registrars
-<br>office.&nbsp; There are online indexes to help locate your ancestors birth, marriage or death.&nbsp; In order to obtain the full event information it is necessary to purchase the certificate.&nbsp; Use censuses and church records to help narrow your search down.
-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Once you identify the area your ancestor lived in, search parish records.&nbsp;
-* Before 1837
-[[Category:Beginners]]
-[[Category:Wales]]