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Welcome to Tracing Ancestors In The UK. Find all the help and information you need for tracing ancestors in the UK. Browse this site for information, services, products and advice on UK family history.
Once you have exhausted your online search as far back as 1837, you will need to start searching offline records in order to go further back. If you are in the UK, this means visiting the relevant county records office, but if you are outside of the UK you may wish to hire a UK [...]
Previously details of census records were not released until a lapse of 100 years, but recently this has been over-ruled, and the 1911 census UK is now available online at Find My Past.
Taken on 2nd April 1911, the information contained in the 1911 British census for England and Wales includes the following:
Place of residence
Age on [...]
Once you have got several generations back on your family tree, it can get quite difficult to get all the important information on one piece of paper! Even if you have all the information on some family history software, it is still usually impossible to print it out onto anything bigger than A4 paper. What [...]
