www.lds.org The main LDS website, with information about the church and its family history resources. Under Family History Library System, you can find a list of LDS Family History Centres in Britain and overseas
www.familysearch.org Website for searches of the IGI, Ancestral File, Pedigree Resource File, Vital Records and U.S. Social Security Death Index. From this site you can also find a list of LDS Family History Centres in Britain and overseas.
Genuki webpage, with information on how to use the LDS Family History Centres www.genuki.org.uk/gs/#Use
Quick guide on how to use the FamilySearch website by Steve Jacques members.tripod.co.uk/familyhistory2/fs.htm
This Genealogy Resources on the Internet site offers links to various Latter Day Saints webpages and sites
www-personal.umich.edu/~cgaunt/latter.html
www.familysearch.org/Search/searchcatalog.asp Online catalogue of the immense Family History Library of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (the Mormons).
A site which links to FamilySearch allowing you to search all the batches for a particular geographic location using just the last name you are searching for - something that is not possible directly from the LDS site without doing a lot of typing.
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers.html#Page
How to use batch numbers in the LDS FamilySearch website (to search IGI and Ancestral File)
globalgazette.net/gazfd/gazfd36.htm
Also a link to the Devon batch number page, under Church Records on the Genuki Devon web pages www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/genuki/DEV
Website homepage is at:
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
This site includes lots of information leaflets: see http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/gettingstarted/guides.htm?source=ddmenu_research6
An Index to The National Archives leaflets is at:
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogues/researchguidesindex.asp?j=1
There are links to the Family Record Centre web-pages, through the PRO Family History Online pages at:
www.familyrecords.gov.uk
A link to The National Archive's on-line catalogue, and the A2A catalogue is at: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogues/default.htm
Detailed information on the centre and its holdings is at: www.familyrecords.gov.uk/frc/default.htm and also at www.familyrecords.gov.uk/partners/frc-partner.htm
You can also find information on family history and the centre at: www.pro.gov.uk/research/familyhistory.htm
Family Records Centre leaflets www.familyrecords.gov.uk/frc/research/researchmain.htm
Information about how to register a birth or death in England and Wales, how to obtain certificates and how to use the services at the Family Records Centre. www.statistics.gov.uk/registration
These services are provided or overseen by the General Register Office (GRO) which is part of the Office for National Statistics.
Information on civil registration on the Genuki website: www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/civreg/index.html
Information on ordering certificates locally, and lists of Local Register Offices all over England and Wales: www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/RegOffice
An online indexing project for civil births, marriages and deaths being developed by volunteers freebmd.rootsweb.com
www.hmc.gov.uk The website for the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, which reports and advises on the location and preservation of historical records in Britain and maintains the Manorial Documents Register, which can be searched on-line at www.hmc.gov.uk/mdr/mdr.htm
This website also has an index to all the major collections held in English and Welsh repositories, called the UK National Register of Archives, which can be searched on-line, at
www.hmc.gov.uk/nra/nra2.htm
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