Talk:England research guide

Incorrect Link [7 November 2012]

FamilySearchWiki for England leads to the wrong web page. More info coming in a couple of hours.

--goldenoldie 12:07, 7 November 2012 (EST)

Civil Registration in England is the FamilySearch article on the process of civil registration in England.

Page update [7 November 2012]

I hope you will not mind any of the changes I have made to this page.

• Have now checked all the websites mentioned and found a few dead links. The dead ones will be found in interjections I have made on the Edit page.
• Have expanded some of the website explanations.
• Have moved the section on Vital Statistics up where it is visible as soon as the page is opened.
• Would like to replace the postal codes map with something more useful, such as the location of the General Register Offices mentioned. I had a look through Wikimedia Commons but did not find anything suitable in size or content. Some of the maps illustrating the regions would be good on the appropriate place pages.

BTW, I live in England and first learned genealogy here thirty years ago. However I only discovered WR in February of this year. Up till now I have been working on my family in Ontario, Canada, and on the Ontario, Canada place pages.

--goldenoldie 16:25, 7 November 2012 (EST)

Page update December 2019 [4 December 2019]

I have added a few notes with regard to Register Offices and the Registration Districts they cover. The FreeBMD index is used by many of our users and for some of them it is the limit of their family history research in England beyond family bibles and memories. Outside of large towns Registration Districts are named by the urban area where the register office is located, but many people (potential ancestors) may have lived in other parishes beyond this urban area. In very large urban areas, like London, there were many registration districts. These have now diminished and there is only one register office for each London Borough within Greater London. The same is true for Greater Manchester and the Birmingham/West Midlands area.

The GENUKI organization has been joined by some new volunteers who have improved and updated it. However, the details on the Rootsweb page are looking very long in the tooth. There are very few links to other websites and the one I tried was a dead link.

I have added a note about the modern postal districts on the map at the bottom of the page.--Goldenoldie 10:11, 4 December 2019 (UTC)