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Email: [mailto:SRLM@swheritage.org.uk SRLM@swheritage.org.uk]<br>
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[https://www.swheritage.org.uk/rural-life-museum Website]
[https://www.swheritage.org.uk/rural-life-museum Website]
==Civil Registration 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''',




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