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This Web site aims to help people tracing their family history by explaining the usage of the different entries on birth, marriage, and death certificates throughout the history of birth registration in England and Wales. The entries on the certificate and their interpretation has to have changed over the past 150 years, and the interpretation of certificates without knowledge of the legal requirements and practices of the period when the registration was made can sometimes be difficult. The birth registrations of Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Southern Ireland are different from those of England and Wales and are not covered here.
These Web Pages have been written by someone with lots of experience of birth, death and marriage registration in England and Wales and contains many details that are illuminating, obscure or not well known. The author makes every attempt to include only accurate information within this site, but makes no claims as to the truth or accuracy of the material contained herein. Accordingly, users of this site should not, in any way, rely on any of the information contained within this site. Review, use or utilization of the material contained within this site shall be deemed to constitute a waiver of any and all liability of the author. This should not be taken as a source of information approved by the Registrar General or by the British Government.
The author has published a guide entitled 'Birth and Death Certificates - England and Wales 1837 to 1969'. This is an invaluable reference for family historians trying to trace their English and Welsh ancestors. The publication is illustrated with sample certificates. A second guide was published in 2000 entitled 'Marriages and Certificates in England & Wales". For more information click on the Booklets link below
You can obtain your certificates from one of two sources
From the General Register Office
From the local Register Office
Click on the Orderering Certificates link below for more information.
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