Who Do You Think You Are?

Welcome

hen we launched in 2007, I remember talking to someone prominent in the world of family history who said that we would never reach we explain what has been digitised and put online, and where you need to search to find your family in the records. Parish register collections are scattered across numerous websites, so we have put this guide together to help you locate the baptisms, marriages and burials that mark a life lived.

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