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STILLBIRTHS

Obtaining Stillbirth Certificates

Due to the sensitive nature of stillbirth registrations, the procedure for ordering a certificate of the entry differs from other types of certificates. We will only send out the application form after we have been contacted by phone or in writing by the mother or father (if he is named on the certificate). In cases where the parents are deceased, a brother or sister can apply if they can provide their parents’ dates of death.

The cost of the certificate is about £7.

Phone +44 (0)845 603 7788
Opening hours: Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm

Or write to us at:
General Register Office
PO Box 2
Southport
Merseyside

An English death certificate will tell you:-

Name of dead person (as known to informant)
Age of dead person (as known to informant)
Date of death
Cause of death
Marital status of dead person (as known to informant)
Place where death occurred
Who certified death
Informant's name, occupation and whether present at death
If there was a coroner's inquest, and the result of that inquest
Registrar's signature.
Name, age, marital status ... all depend on what information the dead person told people while they were still alive!!

IGI Index

International Genealogical Index

found on:

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp

It is a database of mostly baptisms, births and marriage records put together by the Latter Day Saints church. It covers parishes all over the country, and also that some places are very well covered by the Index whilst other places do not appear.

Glenys,

I agree that we shoudl try to help people help themselves.


I've tried guiding people to a site where they can search for themselves ............. usually a free site like freebmd or the LDS site.


But invariably someone else comes along within the next short while, and hands it over on a plate!!




sylvia

BVRI Index


BVRI is a set of 16 discs that you can purchase from the LDS Church via the Familysearch site. They contain christenings and marriages from various parishes in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. They usually cover those not on the IGI but there is a little overlap. They contain 10.4 million christenings and 1.9 million marriages, dated 1530-1906.

lets face it we like the challenge of a search but some people do take the p***
I think we should guide them to the sites where they can do their own research rather than giving it to them on a plate
what say you??
Glen

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philip
we all pay just look at who are asking and what, sometimes people think we are proffs, and are taking the veritable, but most are genuine, I ask for help aswell
Glen.

PRINTING FAMILY TREE

When you open your tree you then select full tree. When it opens you will see a print option on screen. Click on that and then you get a print selection panel which allows you to scale your tree. Change the scale (depending on size of tree) to a size you can still read. Then run mouse over the selection panel and click on pages you want to print.(or you can simply click "select all") When that is done you select print. When it is printed off you will find that pages sometimes join in the middle of a name box so you will have to do a little trimming.

MILITARY RECORDS

FINDMYPAST have these on their site


All military records 1656-1994
Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-18
National Roll of the Great War 1914-18
Army Roll of Honour 1939-45
Other army lists roll calls 1656-1888
Armed forces births 1761-1994
Armed forces marriages 1818-1994
Armed forces deaths 1796-1994

MIGRATION RECORDS

FINDMYPAST has these records

Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960 - In association with The National Archives
Register of passport applications 1851-1933
Bengal Civil Service Gradation List 1869
India Office List 1933
East India Register & Army List 1855
Indian Army & Civil Service List 1873
East India Company's Commercial Marine Service Pensions List 1793-1833

Remember most sites have a free trial period
where you can look up records yourself!

Please remember to say Thank you
Pasting it on title (Thread Subject) of
message when your problem is
sorted lets helpers know that you are happy!

and they can move on to help somebody else

Always have your information at hand when
pasting a message Helpers sometimes want to
know a few details about the person you need help with!

Crougar & Philip
I don't think any of us on this board buy credits from GR. I use Ancestry which offer a 14 day free trial & then you can chose to keep the facility for £9.95 per month or an annual subscription (can't remember how much)
This is also a thread on Tips that says that at the moment you can get a 3 day free Ancestry Worldwide trial but I've not taken mine yet

www.familysearch.org has 1881 census free to everybody. Also has useful early births and marriages (pre- 1837)

Ozibird

Genesreunited has a subscription fee for site only

You have to buy credits on Genes site to view 50 credits cost £5.00 GBP and are valid 7 days from purchase

And believe me they do take them away if you do not use them in seven days

Makes it very difficult as you probably do not need to do 50 searches in seven days so you have to make sure you put them to good use and make sure you are going to be able to work on your tree that seven days!!!!!


I have been caught out like this I buy a £5.00 voucher and do a bit of the tree and a few look ups and think I will do some more at weekend but something comes up and then when I do sit down they have taken all my credits away!! "Great start to the Tree session "

I lost 30 credits like this once and had to buy another voucher so that was another £5.00 Plus the £3.00 I lost put me in a lovely mood I recall............

Ozibird

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1881 Census is now on here free!
It does not have the 1851 Census or 1901 Census
You have to go on other sites to pay for them !
1871 Census large parts of England are missing but they are adding it slowly (I have been waiting since site started to do certain parts of my family tree)

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ITALIAN RECORDS

Familysearch.org have some records
http://genealogy.about.com/od/italy/a/family_tree.htm
http://www.anzwers.org/free/italiangen/free_genealogy_research.html
http://www.italiangen.org/default.htm
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/Rg/frameset_rg.asp?Dest=G1&Guide=LGItalian.ASP

Please make sure you give name & any initials
of the person you are looking for this is a great help!!

If you know what name the initial stands for give that !

Street name may pinpoint a location for someone!