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UK-Genes and Ancestry

So, to re-cap. The online world of Genealogy is making fast in-roads into many homes across the UK (and in fact the world) making it easier to complete your family trees and trace relatives back to times long forgotten.

Here is a list of the most popular record sets to help get you started with your family history research or indeed to find that missing link that's been hounding you for far too long. UK-Genes.org.uk is proud to recommend the following:

Birth, Marriage & Death Records:

Birth records, marriage records, and death records are connected with central life events. They are prime sources for genealogical information. Look also for baptism, christening, and burial records in this collection.

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The Census Collection:

Few, if any, records reveal as many details about individuals and families as do government census records. Substitute records can be used when the official census is unavailable.

You can now search the following Census years online so it's even more likely that you'll find members of your family and re-unite yourself with some of those old genes.

1901 Census for England - Click Here
1901 Census for Wales - Click here
1891 Census for England - Click here
1891 Census for Wales - Click here
1881 Census for England - Click here (FREE!)
1881 Census for Wales - Click here (FREE!)
1871 Census for England - Click here
1871 Census for Wales - Click here
1861 Census for England - Click here
1861 Census for Wales - Click here
1851 Census for England - Click here (NEW)
1851 Census for Wales - Click here (NEW)
1841 Census for England and Wales - Expected Soon

Alternatively search the WHOLE UK Census collection including records for the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands Census collection- Click here

Parish & Probate:

These databases are a collection of historical parish and probate registers from the countries of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. More than 15 million names in this collection can range in date from the early 1500s to the mid- to late-1800s. Some non-parish records may be included from as early as the twelfth century. Parish records--primarily christenings, marriages, and burials--provide the best source of vital record information in the centuries before civil registration. The records include baptisms/christenings, burials, marriages, gravestone inscriptions, obituaries, tax lists, wills, and other miscellaneous types of records. Also included are some records from non-conformist churches. All of the data was converted as it was originally presented in various published registers and books. For this reason, you will find interesting phonetic spellings and large descriptive tables of contents.

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Trees & Communities:

The use of published genealogies, electronic files containing genealogical lineage, and other compiled sources can be of tremendous value to a researcher in building up those missing links or adding more and more people to your family tree.

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Immigration/Emigration:

Immigration and Emigration records help the family historian to understand the movements of their ancestry as they relocated to different parts of the world. Did your family move out of the UK or did they come to the UK on one of the thousands of passanger boats from places such as Ireland or America.

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