Starting Research - Newbies Help etc

• Starting Research at Genuki see menu on right covers a lot of ground and has detail on places in UK and search functions

  
  
  

  Also Births Marriages and Deaths (Ron's quick intro) for more see my page UK BMD Certificates
  Civil registration in England and Wales started in 1837 - prior to then it is parish registers PRs. ( see Ron's Intro to Parish Registers (PRs))
  Civil registration means a certificate for Birth Death or Marriage - hence BC DC and MC. Certificates have to be purchased from UK Government.
  The GRO is the index to the certificates. The index used to be available at St Catherine's House and many places call the GRO St Cath's.
  In Australia the full index including recent years can be found at places like State Libraries and Society of Australian Genealogists.
  (In Australia BMD is usually BDM.)

  
  
  
  Try a search in Google It is an amazing search engine - you can even have it on browser toolbar
• I have many sites here that I have found useful but always check for more by looking at  Google
• I searched for "ron lankshear" and found my old school site with a complete list of my year of entry.
• Join a Rootsweb list - there are special ones for Newbies and for the counties etc of your interest
• Also join the special lists or message boards for your surnames
• such as GENFORUM & ROOTSWEB
• And Facebook has many very good groups so look for such as https://www.facebook.com/groups/ancestryukchat/
  
  A friend's site that might help with some ideas. Has some stuff new to me Genealogy Resources