England Genealogy

England is a one of the four constituent countries of the United Kingdom. It has a history that goes back over a thousand years.

In 1707, the Kingdom of England joined the Kingdom of Scotland in union to become the Kingdom of Great Britain.

Beginner's Corner

The Beginner’s Corner links to information that will help you get started researching your English ancestors. Choose from one of the following:

• 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.

These articles may also help you as you begin researching your English ancestors:

• Beginners Guide 1837 to 1901: Finding Records of Your Ancestors England 1837 To 1901 (3 Mb pdf file)
• New: The Family History Library England Beginning Research series of videos is now available online. Click here to access this course.
• Search strategies for finding births, marriages, and deaths.
• England Record Selection Table - a list of the best records to search for finding specific information.

See also English Ancestry in the FamilySearch Learning Center

Featured Resources

• Article: England Probate Records
• Browse by topic: All pages for England
• Database of British Jews: The Knowles Collection Last updated July 2011, now with over 130,000 entries.

Counties

Click on a county to go to that county's page:

Or click on a link below:

Bedfordshire Berkshire Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cheshire Cornwall Cumberland Derbyshire Devon Dorset Durham Essex Gloucestershire

Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Huntingdonshire Kent Lancashire Leicestershire Lincolnshire London Middlesex Norfolk Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottinghamshire

Oxfordshire Rutland Shropshire Somerset Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Sussex Warwickshire Westmorland Wiltshire Worcestershire Yorkshire

Research tools

• Join a Community of England Researchers! Ask questions, help others, and share your research successes on Facebook and/or Skype! NEW!
• Search strategies for finding births, marriages, and deaths.
• England counties list (with their Chapman Code abbreviations)
• England Record Selection Table
• English Script Tutorial
• Finding records of your ancestors - England 1837 to 1901
• England Major Websites
• England Genealogical Discussion Groups
• The Workhouse
• A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe thepeerage.com/

FamilySearch Historical Records

Wiki articles describing England-related online collections that can be found at FamilySearch.org

• England Births and Christenings
• England Deaths and Burials
• England Marriages

Main article: England FamilySearch Historical Records

Ideas for Finding Compiled Information on English Ancestry

Here's an article entitled "A Checklist of Compiled Sources & Where to Find Them" that's specifically focused to aiding researchers--beginners to professional--who want to learn of compiled genealogical data on (i.e. immigrant) ancestry from England and whole British Isles.
This article shares numerous resources such as gateway websites which provide access to hundreds of millions of names that researchers worldwide have gathered and shared online for British ancestry.

News and Events

29 Nov 4 million pages of historical newspapers now searchable online More news items... More events...

Topics

Key Topics to get Started: Census Church Records Civil Registration Probate Records Other Topics: Archives and Libraries Biography Cemeteries Church Directories Church History Court Records Directories Emigration and Immigration Gazetteers Genealogy Heraldry Historical Geography History Land and Property Language and Languages Manor Records Maps Merchant Marine Military Records Post-1707 Names Personal Naturalization and Citizenship Newspapers Nobility Occupations Periodicals Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc. Schools Shipping and Shipwrecks Societies Taxation

 

 

Genealogy courses: Learn how to research from an expert in England courses.

 

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