England Research Tips and Strategies

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Research Tips and Strategies

Purpose of Research Tips and Strategies Wiki Page The England Research Tips and Strategies page consists of links to specific research strategies for England. It also contains general tips and other resources for finding your ancestors in this locality.

England Research Strategies

• Getting Started
• I want to find a birth, christening or baptism.
• I want to find a marriage.
• I want to find a death or burial.
• I want to know about how my family lived.
• Search strategies for finding births, marriages and deaths
• Guided Research for England
• "How to" Guides for England
• Medieval Research
• Online genealogy records
• England Immigration Strategies
• Finding Ancestors in England
• England Research Guidance

Pre-1974 England County Map

• FamilySearch Library handout with a Pre-1974 map of England counties and a list of key websites.
  
  

England Research Tips

• Look in all censuses: Always look for your ancestor in every possible census. There are clues regarding immigration, naturalization, and occupation that can lead to other records. Sometimes parents can be found living with their children later in life. Search England censuses.
• The English call tombstones "monumental inscriptions" (or M.I.s). Monumental inscriptions may provide birth, marriage, and death information. They sometimes give more information than the parish burial register or civil death certificate—information such as military service, occupation, or cause of death. England Cemeteries.
• A Checklist of Compiled Sources and Where to Find Them

England Record Finder

This Record Finder is designed to help you determine the best record to search for the type of information you are looking for. It is most helpful for post-1850 research.

1. What you are looking for:	2. Try these records first:	3. Other useful records
Age	Census, Civil Registration, Church Records	Cemeteries, Obituaries, Military Records
Birth date	Civil Registration, Church Records	Obituaries, Newspapers, Military Records, Occupations
Birthplace	Census, Civil Registration, Church Records	Obituaries, Newspapers, Occupations, Military Records
Marriage	Church Records, Civil Registration, Genealogy, Periodicals	Newspapers, Biography, Nobility, Cemeteries
Death	Civil Registration, Church Records, Obituaries, Newspapers, Cemeteries	Probate Records, Court Records, Land and Property, Military Records
Immigration date	See research outline for country to which ancestor immigrated	Emigration and Immigration, Church Records
Maiden name	Civil Registration, Church Records	Obituaries, Newspapers, Cemeteries
Parents, children, and other family members	Census, Obituaries, Probate Records	Church Records, Newspapers, Civil Registration
Places of residence	Census, Church Records, Directories	Land and Property, Probate Records, Taxation
Place of residence when you know only the county	Directories, Census, Probate Records, Civil Registration	Church Records, Taxation
Religion	Church Records, Biography, Obituaries, Civil Registration	Cemeteries, Genealogy, History, Probate Records

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