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[edit] Vital Records
[edit] CensusesBritish censuses have taken place every ten years starting in 1841 with the exception of 1941, but only those up to 1911 are currently available to the public. Transcriptions and indexes are available on FamilySearch, FreeCEN--a sister site of FreeBMD, and commercial genealogy websites such as Ancestry Worldwide or Ancestry.co.uk and FindMyPast. Many local family history and genealogy societies have also produced transcriptions for their local areas. [edit] Parish Records and RegistersBaptisms, burials and marriages were registered by the local churches. From 1756 until 1836 marriages were not recognized unless they took place in the Church of England parish church. The records produced in a local parish were copied annually by a reprensentative of the local bishop and preserved at diocesan headquarters. These copies are known as Bishops Transcripts. Today the originals of the parish registers are usually stored at county archive offices, but this may not be the case 100% of the time. Many parish registers were filmed by FamilySearch or its predecessor. These can be borrowed and viewed at LDS libraries throughout the world. Transcriptions have been carried out by local family history or genealogical societies and by more central organizations such as FreeREG and FamilySearch. GENUKI has a section on where to find baptism and burial information for other faiths. This is one of many useful sections of their huge family history website. GENUKI stands for Genealogy United Kingdom and Ireland. [edit] Local Register OfficesA register office is often referred to as a registry office or the registrar’s office, but the formal title is as above. The register office was /is responsible for recording the vital statistics for its local "registration district". By obtaining the name of the local office it is possible to pinpoint the local area and perhaps do more investigation to see if there is other evidence of the family living in the area. The register office was also usually responsible for the census and nineteenth century censuses have been published even if certificates of births, marriages and deaths were not. GENUKI has produced a list of all the registry offices throughout the country. The area covered by each has varied throughout the almost two centuries since 1837. Population increases have varied around the country and improvements in communication have permitted the merger of many register offices. The alterations to the coverage of each registration district is traced in Genuki's list. [edit] SocietiesFederation of Family History Societies. Most genealogical societies in Britain are united within this society. [edit] Maps and Gazetteers
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[edit] Images[edit] Map of UK Postal AreasA full description of the postal area codes. These were only adopted across the country in the 1970s. Previously London and Glasgow had local codes based on compass points. These will be found in earlier published documents. |