English & Welsh - Births, Marriages, Deaths & Census
BMD certificates – English and Welsh (Civil registration from 1837)
- Discover Your Family History – http://www.direct.gov.uk/prod_consum_dg/groups/dg_digitalassets/@dg/@en/documents/digitalasset/dg_186584.pdf (guide to the information available from the General Register Office)
- Research your family history using the General Register Office – https://www.gov.uk/research-family-history-general-register-office (guide to ordering birth, adoption, marriage, death certificates from the General Register Office)
- English & Welsh birth, marriage & death certificates – http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/ (order certificates from the GRO)
- English & Welsh births, marriages & deaths index – http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ (free index, incomplete but growing, useful)
- English & Welsh parish (& non-conformist) registers of births, marriages & deaths index – http://www.freereg.org.uk/ (free index, incomplete but growing, some records back to 16th century)
- Deceased Online – http://www.deceasedonline.com/ (central database for UK burials and cremations)
- English & Welsh BMD index 1837-2006 & parish records at FindMyPast – http://www.findmypast.co.uk (free index, costs to view, fully indexed)
- English & Welsh births, marriages & deaths index & some censuses – http://www.ukbmd.org.uk (free but incomplete)
- Ancestry.co.uk – http://www.ancestry.co.uk (GRO and parish indexes, London Metropolitan Archives parish records images, costs)
- Registration Districts in England & Wales 1837-1974 – http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/reg/
- When uncertain about GRO page numbers – http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/district-page-map-index.html (check page number ranges for district)
Key Events in UK Civil Registration
Chapman Codes
- Chapman Codes – http://www.jaunay.com/chapman.html
Soundex codes
Census (England & Wales)
- Background to British censuses – http://www.sag.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=30
Also – http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/article.aspx?article=6829&cj=1&o_xid=0001231185&o_lid=0001231185 - 1881 English census – http://www.familysearch.org (free, select 'Search Records' then 'Census' then '1881 British Census')
- Early Cambridgeshire censuses – http://www.cfhs.org.uk/EarlyCensusIndex/index.html (earliest is 1686)
- English & Welsh census – http://freecen.rootsweb.com/ (free but incomplete links to online censuses)
- UK Censuses 1841-1901 – http:www.ancestry.co.uk (original images, complete but cost, Scottish are transcriptions)
- English 1901 census – http://www.1901censusonline.com/ (costs)
- English 1911 census – http://www.1911census.co.uk/ (costs)