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Rebecca Stevens
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9 months ago
Today we’re launching a timeline of the history of South Asian Communities across Scotland, in collaboration with Glasgow Museums and Colourful Heritage.
The timeline coincides with the opening of the new “GlaswegAsians” exhibition at the Scotland S...
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Rebecca Stevens
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9 months ago
To celebrate the start of Wimbledon this week, we’ve created a timeline of the history of the Championships, the oldest tennis tournament in the world.
Held at the All England Club in Wimbledon since 1877, the English Royal family have attended the...
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Rebecca Stevens
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9 months ago
If you are celebrating Independence Day in the US today, we have a version of our infographic especially for you!
Our family history infographic – designed to help you share your research and engage younger generations – is now available in red, whi...
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Rebecca Stevens
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9 months ago
We’re halfway through 2017 and we think it’s a good time to look back at everything we’ve added into Twile this year. Our development team have been working hard to bring you lots of new features over the past six months and – just in case you misse...
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Rebecca Stevens
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9 months ago
Could you help us add more history into Twile?
Over the last year we’ve added a number of world history “streams” to Twile, allowing you to see your ancestors’ lives in the context of what was happening in the world around them.
We started with a ti...
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Rebecca Stevens
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1 year ago
A death certificate is important because after 1837 a burial was only allowed if a valid certificate was produced, which meant the civil authorities had been notified of the death. Until 1874, the registrar had to register a death, using informat...
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Rebecca Stevens
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1 year ago
A marriage certificate is important because you can make sure that a couple you had been led to believe married each other actually had. For example if you find the marriage registration in the GRO Index, and believe the couple married each other,...
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Rebecca Stevens
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1 year ago
Census Returns are completed so an official record can be maintained of households and their occupants at the relevant date, being compiled every 10 years since 1801. Very little detail was recorded then as the government merely required a headcou...
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Rebecca Stevens
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1 year ago
Marriages before 1754
In very early marriage records, it is not uncommon to find little information, such as John Jones married his wife.
Limited information was entered in the record only a few years before Hardwicke's Marriage Act of 1753 came...
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Rebecca Stevens
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1 year ago
The GRO Index is a national schedule of births, marriages and deaths that began on 1st July 1837 when Civil Registration came into force.
The country was partitioned into civil registration districts, each of these districts then being divided int...
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Rebecca Stevens
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1 year ago
Baptism records were maintained by the church and were records of christenings conducted in the church. A christening was carried out in order to accept the person involved into the family of the church. It should be remembered that a christenin...
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Rebecca Stevens
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1 year ago
Buckinghamshire Record Office's collections cover Buckinghamshire, including parts of the county now in Berkshire and Milton Keynes. It is based in County Hall, Walton Street, Aylesbury. Their aim is to preserve and collect documents relating to...
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Rebecca Stevens
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3 years ago
The 1851 to 1901 Census Returns give much more information about a household's occupants than the 1841 Census, so are much more useful when researching your family history.
The 1841 Census only listed the household occupants, not stating their re...
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Rebecca Stevens
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3 years ago
Many military records are available at the National Archives, located in Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 4DU. If travelling by tube, the nearest station is Kew Gardens (District line). If travelling by train, the nearest station is Kew Bridge. Some...