Family Records from the UK National Archives

admin — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:24:52 +0000

The National Archives have a dedicated website specifically for family records at Family.Records.gov.uk – your official source for family records.

It’s funded and maintained by a bewildering range of government departments and public sector bodies – the register offices and public records offices for all parts of the United Kingdom, plus the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, the network of academic archives throughout Britain, the Imperial War Museum and even the old records from the pre-1947 India Office.

There’s a whole section full of topics of interest to family history researchers, with useful information about civil births, marriages and deaths registration, religious records (parish registers), censuses, wills, immigration and emigration records, military records, and adoptions. They’ve also got several guides on how to get started in the whole field of family research using original records, genealogy software and records on the Internet. Reviews of useful books and a handy reading list round off this excellent resource for the novice genealogist.

FamilyRecords.gov.uk

Tracing South Asian Roots

admin — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:12:51 +0000

This is an interesting area of genealogy but until recently not much had been published on the subject. However, although this field of research is still in its early stages, more people are becoming interested in researching their South Asian family history.

A great place to start is the Moving Here website and their section on South Asian Roots.

Written by Abi Husainy of the National Archives, it tells you how to get started, provides sources of information, and how to “pull it all together”.

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Family Records from the UK National Archives

Tracing South Asian Roots