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For a long list of Wiltshire museums, go to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_museums_in_Wiltshire '''List of museums in Wiltshire'''] in Wikipedia. | For a long list of Wiltshire museums, go to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_museums_in_Wiltshire '''List of museums in Wiltshire'''] in Wikipedia. | ||
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'''Wiltshire Museum'''<br>41 Long Street<br>Devizes, Wiltshire SN10 1NS UK<br>Telephone: 01380 727369<br>Email: [mailto:archive@wiltshiremuseum.org.uk archive@wiltshiremuseum.org.uk]<br> | '''Wiltshire Museum'''<br>41 Long Street<br>Devizes, Wiltshire SN10 1NS UK<br>Telephone: 01380 727369<br>Email: [mailto:archive@wiltshiremuseum.org.uk archive@wiltshiremuseum.org.uk]<br>[http://www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/ Website] | ||
:The Wiltshire Museum has an international reputation and attracts visitors from all over the world. The archaeology collections, which are among the finest in Britain, trace the history of people living in Wiltshire in a series of galleries - Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman, Saxon, and Medieval. The collections on display include important finds associated with the World Heritage Sites of Avebury and Stonehenge. | :The Wiltshire Museum has an international reputation and attracts visitors from all over the world. The archaeology collections, which are among the finest in Britain, trace the history of people living in Wiltshire in a series of galleries - Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Roman, Saxon, and Medieval. The collections on display include important finds associated with the World Heritage Sites of Avebury and Stonehenge. | ||
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'''Stonehenge & Avebury World Heritage Site (WHS)'''<br> | |||
[http://www.stonehengeandaveburywhs.org/visit-us/visit-stonehenge/ 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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